CVE-2024-32960

Booking Ultra Pro <= 1.1.12 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Privilege Escalation

2024-04-23 00:00
Emili Castells

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.1.13
Affected Plugin
Booking Ultra Pro Appointments Booking Calendar Plugin
Affected Version
<= 1.1.12
CVSS
8.8High
Weakness type
CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management
CVE
CVE-2024-32960
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At a glance

CVE-2024-32960 is a high-severity Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in the Booking Ultra Pro Appointments Booking Calendar Plugin WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.1.12. It carries a CVSS score of 8.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Contributor level or above. The issue is fixed in version 1.1.13; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed April 2024, reported by Emili Castells.

Vulnerability Overview

The Booking Ultra Pro Appointments Booking Calendar Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.12. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to escalate their privileges.

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 interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.

CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management

Reaching this weakness in Booking Ultra Pro Appointments Booking Calendar Plugin <= 1.1.12 takes an account at Contributor level or above. Improper privilege management means the code lets an account end up with capabilities its role should not have.

It converts a low-privileged account into an administrative one, which makes every other restriction on the site irrelevant. For Booking Ultra Pro Appointments Booking Calendar Plugin the fix is 1.1.13: builds <= 1.1.12 are affected, anything from 1.1.13 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.1.13, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: Booking Ultra Pro Appointments Booking Calendar Plugin 1.1.13 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-32960https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f65fdde9-1133-4e29-a70a-be977f96accehttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-32960

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