# CVE-2025-46247: WordPress Appointment Booking Calendar plugin <= 1.3.92 - Broken Access Control Vulnerability

> Attackers can access restricted functionality due to missing authorization checks in the Appointment Booking Calendar plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 22 Apr 2025
- **Updated:** 28 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-v9xw-qh54-24j3

## What is CVE-2025-46247?

CVE-2025-46247 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in codepeople Appointment Booking Calendar, published on 22 Apr 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Missing Authorization vulnerability in codepeople Appointment Booking Calendar appointment-booking-calendar allows Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs.This issue affects Appointment Booking Calendar: from n/a through <= 1.3.92.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-46247?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Codepeople Appointment Booking Calendar.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-46247?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-46247 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-46247 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-46247 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in codepeople Appointment Booking Calendar

- [CVE-2016-10916](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-10916/): SQL injection in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-0856](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-0856/): Booking Calendar < 1.3.83 - CSRF appointment scheduling (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2025-46241](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-46241/): WordPress Appointment Booking Calendar plugin <= 1.3.92 - CSRF to SQL Injection vulnerability (high 8.2)
- [CVE-2020-9372](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-9372/): Code injection in n/a (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2024-12274](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12274/): BookingPress < 1.1.23 - Unauthenticated Export File Download (high 7.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-46247 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-46247 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in codepeople Appointment Booking Calendar, published on 22 Apr 2025. 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-2025-46247 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: codepeople Appointment Booking Calendar. 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-2025-46247/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-46247/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-46247
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-46247
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-46247

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-46247/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.