CVE-2026-8840CWE-862broken-access-control

CVE-2026-8840

Medium · published August 15, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
1%
Percentile
45.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00547 · 45.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
Published
2026-08-15T07:16Z
References (9)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 AUG 02:26Z
    Booking calendar, Appointment Booking System <= 3.2.36 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Modification via wpdevart_payment AJAX Action
    cvelistv5