CVE-2024-7350

Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Online Scheduling Plugin – BookingPress 1.1.6 - 1.1.7 - Authentication Bypass to Account Takeover

2024-08-07 00:00
Gibran Abdillah

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.1.8
Affected Plugin
Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Scheduling Plugin – BookingPress
Affected Version
1.1.6 – 1.1.7
CVSS
9.8Critical
Weakness type
CWE-288 · Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
CVE
CVE-2024-7350
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At a glance

CVE-2024-7350 is a critical-severity Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel vulnerability in the Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Scheduling Plugin WordPress plugin, affecting versions 1.1.6 – 1.1.7. It carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.1.8; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed August 2024, reported by Gibran Abdillah.

Vulnerability Overview

The Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Online Scheduling Plugin – BookingPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in versions 1.1.6 to 1.1.7. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying a user's identity prior to logging them in when completing a booking. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as registered users, including administrators, if they have access to that user's email. This is only exploitable when the 'Auto login user after successful booking' setting is enabled.

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, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.

CWE-288: Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel

Reaching this weakness in Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Scheduling Plugin 1.1.6 – 1.1.7 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Authentication bypass through an alternate path means the application has a second route to a protected action that skips the checks the primary route performs.

The protection on the main path becomes irrelevant, because the attacker simply uses the route that never asks. For Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Scheduling Plugin the fix is 1.1.8: builds 1.1.6 – 1.1.7 are affected, anything from 1.1.8 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.1.8, 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: Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Scheduling Plugin 1.1.8 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-7350https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4c367565-75f7-4dd7-a2f1-111df581bd7ahttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-7350

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