WordPress security changelog
MEDIUM CVE-2026-7652 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. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. A successful request can grant permissions or access that the caller should not possess. The published affected range is <= 5.5.0.

CVE / CNA score 5.3 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
<= 5.5.0
Safe version
> 5.5.0
Published
May 09, 2026
Weakness
CWE-640 — Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

This CVE was published May 09, 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 5.5.0, 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 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Account Takeover via Weak Password Recovery Mechanism in the unauthenticated guest booking flow in versions up to, and including, 5.5.0 This is due to the save_connected_wordpress_user() function propagating a LatePoint customer's email address to its linked WordPress user account via wp_update_user() without any ownership verification, combined with the guest booking flow's ability to overwrite an existing customer's email through phone-based merge without authentication. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to overwrite the email address of a non-super-admin WordPress user account that is not yet linked to a LatePoint customer, enabling full account takeover by subsequently triggering the standard WordPress password-reset flow to the attacker-controlled address granted the plugin is configured with WordPress user integration enabled, phone-based contact merging, and customer authentication disabled. Administrator accounts on single-site installs are not affected.

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

References

Primary and upstream sources