WordPress security changelog
MEDIUM CVE-2026-77689 Received

Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar: A security weakness

Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar is affected by a security weakness. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation. The published affected range is 9.0 to < 9.8.1.

CVE / CNA score 5.3 CVSS 3.1 · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
NVD score Pending NVD has not published its own CVSS assessment.
Component
Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar
Plugin slug
booking-for-appointments-and-events-calendar
Affected
9.0 to < 9.8.1
Safe version
9.8.1
Published
Sep 12, 2026
Weakness
CWE-284 — Improper Access Control

This CVE was published Sep 12, 2026 and is one of 6 known issues for this plugin.

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar to 9.8.1 or later, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.

A safe version is available, so updating to that version or later is the preferred remediation. If an immediate update is not practical, consider a targeted application patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality.

Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.

Technical description

The Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar WordPress plugin before 9.8.1 does not verify that a payment was actually taken before recording a booking as paid, trusting the payment gateway named in a public, unauthenticated booking request even when the site has never configured that gateway. This lets an unauthenticated attacker obtain confirmed, fully paid appointments and events without any payment being collected.

CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Primary and upstream sources