Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Online Scheduling Plugin – BookingPress: Privilege escalation or authentication bypass
Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Online Scheduling Plugin – BookingPress is affected by privilege escalation or authentication bypass. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. A successful request can grant permissions or access that the caller should not possess.
- Component
- Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Online Scheduling Plugin – BookingPress
- Plugin slug
bookingpress-appointment-booking- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Aug 08, 2024
This CVE was published Aug 08, 2024 and is one of 9 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Online Scheduling Plugin – BookingPress to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
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 Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Online Scheduling Plugin – BookingPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in versions 1.1.6 to 1.1.7. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying a user's identity prior to logging them in when completing a booking. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as registered users, including administrators, if they have access to that user's email. This is only exploitable when the 'Auto login user after successful booking' setting is enabled.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H