CVE-2024-6660 Missing authorization in Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Scheduling Plugin – BookingPress
Authenticated subscribers can update arbitrary options and upload files to escalate privileges to administrator due to missing capability checks.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-6660?
CVE-2024-6660 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in reputeinfosystems Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Scheduling Plugin – BookingPress, published on 17 Jul 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The BookingPress – Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Online Scheduling Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the bookingpress_import_data_continue_process_func function in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update arbitrary options on the WordPress site and upload arbitrary files. This can be leveraged to update the default role for registration to administrator and enable user registration for attackers to gain administrative user access to a vulnerable site.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-6660?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Reputeinfosystems Bookingpress.
How do I fix CVE-2024-6660?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-6660 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2024-6660 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-6660 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in reputeinfosystems Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Scheduling Plugin – BookingPress
- CVE-2022-0739 BookingPress < 1.0.11 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection
- CVE-2024-6467 BookingPress Appointment Booking <= 1.1.5 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Read to Arbitrary File Creation
- CVE-2023-50841 WordPress BookingPress Plugin <= 1.0.72 is vulnerable to SQL Injection
- CVE-2023-51405 WordPress BookingPress plugin <= 1.0.74 - Booking Price Manipulation vulnerability
- CVE-2025-31910 WordPress BookingPress plugin <= 1.1.28 - SQL Injection vulnerability
Sources
Also known as GHSA-pj78-8h7f-mg7f.