CVE-2022-36399

Booked < 2.4.4 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure

2023-06-27 00:00
coogee86

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 2.4.4
Affected Version
< 2.4.4
CVSS
6.5Medium
Weakness type
CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE
CVE-2022-36399
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At a glance

CVE-2022-36399 is a medium-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in the Booked - Appointment Booking for WordPress WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 2.4.4. It carries a CVSS score of 6.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.4.4; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed June 2023, reported by coogee86.

Vulnerability Overview

The Booked plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in versions up to, and excluding, 2.4.4. This can allow unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive appointment-related data from the database.

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-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Reaching this weakness in Booked - Appointment Booking for WordPress < 2.4.4 takes no account at all. Sensitive information exposure means data the application intended to keep internal is returned to a caller who should not be able to see it.

The disclosed data — credentials, tokens, customer records or internal paths — is usually worth more as material for a follow-up attack than as an end in itself. For Booked - Appointment Booking for WordPress the fix is 2.4.4: builds < 2.4.4 are affected, anything from 2.4.4 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.4.4, 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: Booked - Appointment Booking for WordPress 2.4.4 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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