BookingPress Appointment Booking Pro <= 5.7.1 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection via 'store_service_date' Parameter
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 5.7.2
- Affected Plugin
- BookingPress Appointment Booking Pro
- Affected Version
<= 5.7.1- CVSS
- 7.5High
- Weakness type
- CWE-89 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')
- CVE
CVE-2026-11823
At a glance
CVE-2026-11823 is a high-severity Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') vulnerability in the BookingPress Appointment Booking Pro WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 5.7.1. It carries a CVSS score of 7.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 5.7.2; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed June 2026, reported by h0xilo.
Vulnerability Overview
The BookingPress Appointment Booking Pro plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'store_service_date' parameter of the bpa_assign_staffmember_to_slots() function in versions up to and including 5.7.1. This is due to the explicit use of stripslashes_deep() on user-supplied POST data before it is interpolated verbatim into a SQL LIKE clause without use of $wpdb->prepare() or any parameterization. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information 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. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality.
CWE-89: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')
BookingPress Appointment Booking Pro <= 5.7.1 carries this weakness at store_service_date, and reaching it takes no account at all. SQL injection happens when request data is concatenated into a query instead of being bound as a parameter, letting an attacker change the structure of the statement rather than just its values.
A working injection can read any table the database user can see, which on a WordPress install means user records, password hashes and session or API secrets stored in options. For BookingPress Appointment Booking Pro the fix is 5.7.2: builds <= 5.7.1 are affected, anything from 5.7.2 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 5.7.2, 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: BookingPress Appointment Booking Pro 5.7.2 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
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