CVE-2026-8840
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.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Puntuación base: 5.3
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.55%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 44
- Fecha de la puntuación: 5/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (1)
⚠ Inferidas por IA a partir de la descripción — NVD aún no ha analizado esta CVE; no son CPE verificados.
CWE
- CWE-862
Referencias
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/booking-calendar/tags/3.2.35/admin/controllers/Payment.php#L16
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/booking-calendar/tags/3.2.35/admin/controllers/Payment.php#L26
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/booking-calendar/tags/3.2.35/booking_calendar.php#L131
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/booking-calendar/tags/3.2.35/booking_calendar.php#L578
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/booking-calendar/tags/3.2.36/admin/controllers/Payment.php#L16
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/booking-calendar/tags/3.2.36/admin/controllers/Payment.php#L26
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/booking-calendar/tags/3.2.36/booking_calendar.php#L131
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/booking-calendar/tags/3.2.36/booking_calendar.php#L578
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/88409bb0-5cb0-4f63-b8f0-d72f54fa17b0?source=cve
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