CVE-2025-26965

Amelia <= 1.2.16 - Unauthenticated Insecure Direct Object Reference

2025-02-23 00:00
Revan Arifio

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.2.17
Affected Plugin
Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar – Amelia
Affected Version
<= 1.2.16
CVSS
5.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-639 · Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE
CVE-2025-26965
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At a glance

CVE-2025-26965 is a medium-severity Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability in the Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.2.16. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.2.17; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed February 2025, reported by Revan Arifio.

Vulnerability Overview

The Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar - Amelia plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.16 due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform an unauthorized action.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-639: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

Reaching this weakness in Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar <= 1.2.16 takes no account at all. Authorization bypass through a user-controlled key, often called insecure direct object reference, means the application looks up a record by an identifier from the request without checking that the caller owns it.

Changing a number in the request is enough to read or modify other users' records, which on commerce and membership sites means customer data. For Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar the fix is 1.2.17: builds <= 1.2.16 are affected, anything from 1.2.17 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.2.17, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

This one needs no account at all, which puts it outside what login hardening can reach; WordSec's login security narrows the account-level paths around it, and the firewall is what inspects the request itself. None of that substitutes for the fix: Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar 1.2.17 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-26965https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5cd8c464-1402-4301-ac66-4e6fc0328de2https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-26965

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