CVE-2026-15237 Hotel Booking Lite < 6.2.3 - Unauthenticated Payment Record Creation via Checkout Payments REST Endpoint
Unauthenticated attackers can create fake payment records for arbitrary bookings, falsely marking them as paid.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-15237?
CVE-2026-15237 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Unknown MotoPress Hotel Booking, published on 10 Aug 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The MotoPress Hotel Booking WordPress plugin before 6.2.3 does not perform any authorization or ownership check on a REST endpoint that creates payment records, allowing unauthenticated users to create completed payment records against arbitrary bookings and falsely mark them as paid.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-15237?
How do I fix CVE-2026-15237?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-15237 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-2026-15237 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-15237 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-vqh4-pqm8-4r46.