MotoPress Hotel Booking endpoint accepts forged completed payments
MotoPress Hotel Booking before 6.2.3 exposes a REST endpoint that creates payment records without authorization or booking-ownership checks. An unauthenticated attacker can create a completed payment record for an arbitrary booking and falsely mark that booking as paid.
- Component
- MotoPress Hotel Booking
- Plugin slug
motopress-hotel-booking-lite- Affected
- < 6.2.3
- Safe version
6.2.3- Published
- Aug 10, 2026
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Aug 10, 2026 and is one of 7 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update to 6.2.3 or later. Reconcile bookings and payment records against the external payment processor, investigate completed payments without matching transactions, and correct or cancel fraudulent bookings before fulfillment.
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 MotoPress Hotel Booking WordPress plugin before 6.2.3 does not perform any authorization or ownership check on a REST endpoint that creates payment records, allowing unauthenticated users to create completed payment records against arbitrary bookings and falsely mark them as paid.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N