CVE-2025-7689 Missing authorization in Hydra Booking – All in One Appointment Booking System | Appointment Scheduling, Booking Calendar & WooCommerce Bookings
Authenticated subscribers can reset administrator passwords due to missing capability checks, leading to full site takeover.
- 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-2025-7689?
CVE-2025-7689 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in themefic Hydra Booking – All in One Appointment Booking System | Appointment Scheduling, Booking Calendar & WooCommerce Bookings, published on 29 Jul 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Hydra Booking plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to a missing capability check on the tfhb_reset_password_callback() function in versions 1.1.0 to 1.1.18. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to reset the password of an Administrator user, achieving full privilege escalation.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-7689?
How do I fix CVE-2025-7689?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-7689 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-2025-7689 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-7689 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-mvv5-62qm-f67x.