CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-8840
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-08-15
- Last modified
- 2026-08-20
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-862
Description
The Booking calendar, Appointment Booking System plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.36. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to mark arbitrary reservations as paid or completed, cancel legitimate payments, auto-approve reservations, and trigger transactional booking emails by writing attacker-supplied payment status and transaction data directly into the payments table. The auto-approval of reservations is only triggered when the 'enable_psuccess_approval' site option is enabled, but payment status manipulation and email dispatch are exploitable regardless of that setting.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/booking-calendar/tags/3.2.35/admin/controllers/Payment.php#L16 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/booking-calendar/tags/3.2.35/admin/controllers/Payment.php#L26 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/booking-calendar/tags/3.2.35/booking_calendar.php#L131 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/booking-calendar/tags/3.2.35/booking_calendar.php#L578 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/booking-calendar/tags/3.2.36/admin/controllers/Payment.php#L16 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/booking-calendar/tags/3.2.36/admin/controllers/Payment.php#L26 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/booking-calendar/tags/3.2.36/booking_calendar.php#L131 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/booking-calendar/tags/3.2.36/booking_calendar.php#L578 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/88409bb0-5cb0-4f63-b8f0-d72f54fa17b0?source=cve www.wordfence.com