# CVE-2024-8795: BA Book Everything <= 1.6.20 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Email Address Update/Account Takeover

> Attackers can trick administrators into updating account details, potentially leading to password resets and account takeover via CSRF.

- **Severity:** High 8.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 24 Sep 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-m484-q4fr-mm8v

## What is CVE-2024-8795?

CVE-2024-8795 is a high-severity vulnerability in bookingalgorithms BA Book Everything, published on 24 Sep 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The BA Book Everything plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.20. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the my_account_update() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update a user's account details via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. This can be leveraged to reset a user's password and gain access to their account.

Weakness: CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-8795?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Ba-Booking Ba Book Everything.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-8795?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-8795 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-8795 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8795 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in bookingalgorithms BA Book Everything

- [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)
- [CVE-2024-32598](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-32598/): WordPress BA Book Everything plugin <= 1.6.8 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (medium 5.9)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-8795 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-8795 is a high-severity vulnerability in bookingalgorithms BA Book Everything, published on 24 Sep 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8795 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-2024-8795/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8795/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-8795
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8795
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-8795

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8795/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.