# CVE-2024-8794: BA Book Everything <= 1.6.20 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary User Password Reset

> Unauthenticated attackers can reset any user's password, including administrators, due to missing identity verification in the password reset function.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 24 Sep 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-w86j-8536-q955

## What is CVE-2024-8794?

CVE-2024-8794 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in bookingalgorithms BA Book Everything, published on 24 Sep 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The BA Book Everything plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary password reset in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.20. This is due to the reset_user_password() function not verifying a user's identity prior to setting a password. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to reset any user's passwords, including administrators. It's important to note that the attacker will not have access to the generated password, therefore, privilege escalation is not possible.

Weakness: CWE-620 (Unverified Password Change)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-8794?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Ba-Booking Ba Book Everything.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-8794?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-8794 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-8794 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8794 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in bookingalgorithms BA Book Everything

- [CVE-2024-8795](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8795/): BA Book Everything <= 1.6.20 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Email Address Update/Account Takeover (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2024-32125](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-32125/): WordPress BA Book Everything plugin <= 1.6.4 - Auth. SQL Injection vulnerability (high 8.5)
- [CVE-2024-47360](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-47360/): WordPress BA Book Everything plugin <= 1.6.20 - Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (high 7.1)
- [CVE-2024-32576](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-32576/): WordPress BA Book Everything plugin <= 1.6.8 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2024-3672](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-3672/): BA Book Everything <= 1.6.8 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode (medium 6.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-8794 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-8794 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in bookingalgorithms BA Book Everything, published on 24 Sep 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8794 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: bookingalgorithms BA Book Everything. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8794/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8794/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-8794
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8794
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-8794

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8794/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.