MotoPress Appointment Booking <= 2.4.4 - Unauthenticated Insecure Direct Object Reference to 'payment_details.booking_id' Parameter
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 2.4.5
- Affected Plugin
- MotoPress Appointment Booking
- Affected Version
<= 2.4.4- CVSS
- 5.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-639 · Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
- CVE
CVE-2026-9180
At a glance
CVE-2026-9180 is a medium-severity Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability in the MotoPress Appointment Booking WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.4.4. 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 2.4.5; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed July 2026, reported by g0wthr.
Vulnerability Overview
The MotoPress Appointment Booking plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.4. This is due to the `POST /motopress/appointment/v1/bookings` REST endpoint being registered with `'permission_callback' => '__return_true'`, allowing unauthenticated access, while the `createBooking` handler in `BookingsRestController.php` accepts an attacker-supplied `payment_details.booking_id` value and loads the referenced booking via `findById()` without verifying that the caller owns or has any rights to that booking. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to overwrite the customer name, email address, phone number, and `customer_id` of any non-confirmed victim booking by submitting a request with no reservation items, causing `BookingService::createBooking()` to load the existing victim booking object and persist it with attacker-controlled customer data. Victim booking IDs can be harvested prior to exploitation without authentication by querying the also-publicly-accessible `GET /motopress/appointment/v1/bookings/reservations` endpoint with a guessable `service_id` and date range, and only bookings whose status is not `STATUS_CONFIRMED` (e.g., pending or auto-draft) are valid targets.
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-639: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
MotoPress Appointment Booking <= 2.4.4 carries this weakness at permission_callback, and reaching it takes no account at all. Authorization bypass through a user-controlled key, often called insecure direct object reference, means the application looks up a record by an identifier from the request without checking that the caller owns it.
Changing a number in the request is enough to read or modify other users' records, which on commerce and membership sites means customer data. For MotoPress Appointment Booking the fix is 2.4.5: builds <= 2.4.4 are affected, anything from 2.4.5 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 2.4.5, 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: MotoPress Appointment Booking 2.4.5 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
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Other vulnerabilities in MotoPress Appointment Booking
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