Appointment Booking Calendar: Code execution
Appointment Booking Calendar is affected by code execution. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. Successful exploitation can run attacker-controlled code in the WordPress hosting account.
- Component
- Appointment Booking Calendar
- Plugin slug
simply-schedule-appointments- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Sep 13, 2024
- Weakness
- NVD-CWE-Other
This CVE was published Sep 13, 2024 and is one of 31 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Appointment Booking Calendar 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 Appointment Booking Calendar WordPress plugin before 1.6.7.43 does not escape template syntax provided via user input, leading to Twig Template Injection which further exploited can result to remote code Execution by high privilege such as admins
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H