CVE Explorer
CVE-2026-9851
The Booking Package plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via Account Takeover in versions up to, and including, 1.7.16. This is due to a missing capability check on the 'updateUser' branch of the package_app_action AJAX endpoint, where the handler only validates a nonce and the dispatcher invokes Schedule::updateUser() with the $administrator argument hard-coded to 1, bypassing the only owner-restriction check inside that function and allowing the target user to be determin
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
0
Affected products and versions
1 source assertion{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Booking Package","vendor":"masaakitanaka","versions":[{"lessThanOrEqual":"1.7.16","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"semver"}]}
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Provider-owned CVSS observations
1 source assertion{"metric":{"baseScore":7.2,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
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CWE assertions
1 source assertion{"cweId":"CWE-639","description":"CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
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Source references
5 source assertions{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/booking-package/tags/1.7.13/index.php#L4416"}
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{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/booking-package/tags/1.7.13/index.php#L4477"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:702aa62f009561329f8e2a43762a641b8425b2a1506b8facbdda2c6ef115002e · sha256:7b205d130f797996… · /containers/cna/references/2
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/booking-package/tags/1.7.13/lib/Schedule.php#L868"}
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{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3558752%40booking-package&new=3558752%40booking-package&sfp_email=&sfph_mail="}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:702aa62f009561329f8e2a43762a641b8425b2a1506b8facbdda2c6ef115002e · sha256:7b205d130f797996… · /containers/cna/references/4
{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/795c1fd6-137b-4414-8d6b-30053bfb5924?source=cve"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:702aa62f009561329f8e2a43762a641b8425b2a1506b8facbdda2c6ef115002e · sha256:7b205d130f797996… · /containers/cna/references/0
Attribution and limitations
- CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →
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