CVE-2026-9851 PUBLISHED

Booking Package <= 1.7.16 - Authenticated (Editor+) Privilege Escalation via Account Takeover to updateUser AJAX Action

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 28.05.2026 Published: 06.06.2026 Updated: 06.06.2026

The Booking Package plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via Account Takeover in versions up to, and including, 1.7.16. This is due to a missing capability check on the 'updateUser' branch of the package_app_action AJAX endpoint, where the handler only validates a nonce and the dispatcher invokes Schedule::updateUser() with the $administrator argument hard-coded to 1, bypassing the only owner-restriction check inside that function and allowing the target user to be determined solely by attacker-supplied input passed directly to wp_update_user(). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Editor-level access and above, to change the email address and password of any account, including Administrator accounts, resulting in a full site takeover.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 7.2

Product Status

Vendor masaakitanaka
Product Booking Package
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 1.7.16 (incl.)

Credits

  • Md. Moniruzzaman Prodhan finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key CWE