WordPress security changelog
HIGH CVE-2026-6741 Deferred

LatePoint – Calendar Booking Plugin for Appointments and Events: Privilege escalation or authentication bypass

LatePoint – Calendar Booking Plugin for Appointments and Events is affected by privilege escalation or authentication bypass. Exploitation requires an authenticated WordPress account. A successful request can grant permissions or access that the caller should not possess. The published affected range is <= 5.4.1.

CVE / CNA score 8.8 CVSS 3.1 · security@wordfence.com
NVD score Pending NVD has not published its own CVSS assessment.
Component
LatePoint – Calendar Booking Plugin for Appointments and Events
Plugin slug
latepoint
Affected
<= 5.4.1
Safe version
> 5.4.1
Published
Apr 27, 2026
Weakness
CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management

This CVE was published Apr 27, 2026 and is one of 29 known issues for this plugin.

What to do

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update LatePoint – Calendar Booking Plugin for Appointments and Events to a release after 5.4.1, 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.

Source record

Technical description

The LatePoint – Calendar Booking Plugin for Appointments and Events plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in versions up to and including 5.4.1. This is due to a missing authorization check in the execute() method of the connect-customer-to-wp-user ability, which only requires the customer__edit capability granted to the latepoint_agent role by default, without verifying whether the target WordPress user ID belongs to a privileged account. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with the latepoint_agent role to link any LatePoint customer record to an administrator's WordPress account and subsequently reset the administrator's password via the normal customer password-reset flow, resulting in full site takeover.

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

References

Primary and upstream sources