BookingPress – Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Online Scheduling Plugin: Filesystem traversal
BookingPress – Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Online Scheduling Plugin is affected by filesystem traversal. Exploitation requires at least subscriber-level access. A crafted path can escape the intended directory and reach files or directories elsewhere on the server.
- Component
- BookingPress – Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Online Scheduling Plugin
- Plugin slug
bookingpress- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Jul 17, 2024
This CVE was published Jul 17, 2024 and is one of 6 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update BookingPress – Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Online Scheduling Plugin 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 BookingPress – Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Online Scheduling Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Read to Arbitrary File Creation in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.5 via the 'bookingpress_save_lite_wizard_settings_func' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to create arbitrary files that contain the content of files (either on the local server or from a remote location), allowing the execution of any PHP code in those files or the exposure of sensitive information.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H