CVE-2026-96039

BA Book Everything <= 1.8.27 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via first_name Parameter

2026-09-24 18:07
Adrien Brunner

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.8.28
Affected Plugin
BA Book Everything
Affected Version
<= 1.8.27
CVSS
7.2High
Weakness type
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE
CVE-2026-96039
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At a glance

CVE-2026-96039 is a high-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the BA Book Everything WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.8.27. It carries a CVSS score of 7.2 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.8.28; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed September 2026, reported by Adrien Brunner.

Vulnerability Overview

The BA Book Everything plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via first_name Parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.27 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. An unauthenticated attacker can obtain the valid order_id, order_num, and order_hash credentials required to reach the vulnerable action_to_pay() handler simply by placing a guest booking through the public [babe-booking-form] shortcode, making the full exploit chain reachable without any account.

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-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

BA Book Everything <= 1.8.27 carries this weakness at action_to_pay(), and reaching it takes no account at all. Cross-site scripting happens when input from a request is written into a page without being escaped for the context it lands in, so the browser parses attacker-supplied text as markup or script.

Injected script runs with the privileges of whoever views the affected page, which is how these flaws turn into administrator session theft, silent account creation or persistent backdoors in page content. For BA Book Everything the fix is 1.8.28: builds <= 1.8.27 are affected, anything from 1.8.28 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.8.28, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

Requests carrying this pattern arrive without a session, so nothing upstream of the firewall gets a chance to reject them: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: BA Book Everything 1.8.28 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-96039https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dd118053-b0f7-4fce-aa00-b0bb40778f21https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-96039

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