WordPress security changelog
MEDIUM CVE-2024-1760 Modified

Appointment Booking Calendar — Simply Schedule Appointments Booking Plugin: Cross-site request forgery

Appointment Booking Calendar — Simply Schedule Appointments Booking Plugin is affected by cross-site request forgery. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. Exploitation relies on a signed-in privileged user submitting an attacker-controlled request.

CVE / CNA score 4.3 CVSS 3.1 · security@wordfence.com
NVD score 4.7 CVSS 3.1 · nvd@nist.gov
Component
Appointment Booking Calendar — Simply Schedule Appointments Booking Plugin
Plugin slug
simply-schedule-appointments
Affected
See vendor advisory
Safe version
See mitigation notes
Published
Mar 06, 2024
Weakness
CWE-352 — Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

This CVE was published Mar 06, 2024 and is one of 31 known issues for this plugin.

What to do

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update Appointment Booking Calendar — Simply Schedule Appointments Booking 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.

Source record

Technical description

The Appointment Booking Calendar — Simply Schedule Appointments Booking Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.6.20. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the ssa_factory_reset() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to reset the plugin's settings via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

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

NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N

References

Primary and upstream sources