# CVE-2026-14853: WooCommerce Bookings < 3.9.0 - Subscriber+ Draft Bookable Product Creation via Missing Authorization

> Subscribers can create draft bookable products due to missing capability checks and bypassable nonce validation in the WooCommerce Bookings plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 23 Aug 2026
- **Updated:** 23 Aug 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-jfpw-hmq2-3xwx

## What is CVE-2026-14853?

CVE-2026-14853 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Unknown WooCommerce Bookings, published on 23 Aug 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The WooCommerce Bookings WordPress plugin before 3.9.0 does not perform a capability check on one of its AJAX actions, and its nonce check can be bypassed by omitting the token, allowing users with Subscriber-level access and above to create draft bookable products.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-14853?


## How do I fix CVE-2026-14853?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-14853 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2026-14853 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-14853 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-14853 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2026-14853 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Unknown WooCommerce Bookings, published on 23 Aug 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-14853 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Unknown WooCommerce Bookings. 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-2026-14853/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-14853/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-14853
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-14853
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-14853

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-14853/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.