CVE-2024-34799

BookingPress <= 1.0.82 - Missing Authorization to Appointment Time Alteration

2024-05-20 00:00
Mochamad Sofyan

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.0.83
Affected Plugin
Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Scheduling Plugin – BookingPress
Affected Version
<= 1.0.82
CVSS
5.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
CVE
CVE-2024-34799
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At a glance

CVE-2024-34799 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Scheduling Plugin WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.0.82. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.0.83; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed May 2024, reported by Mochamad Sofyan.

Vulnerability Overview

The BookingPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on a function in versions up to, and including, 1.0.82. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to alter the duration of appointments.

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-862: Missing Authorization

Reaching this weakness in Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Scheduling Plugin <= 1.0.82 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. A missing authorization check means a function is reachable by anyone who can reach the endpoint, because the code never asks whether the caller is allowed to perform the action.

Any user who can reach the endpoint gets to run an action reserved for higher-privileged roles, from reading protected data to changing settings or content. For Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Scheduling Plugin the fix is 1.0.83: builds <= 1.0.82 are affected, anything from 1.0.83 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.0.83, 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 1.0.83 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-34799https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2a690565-d401-4c71-8ca2-c9a10468e870https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-34799

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