Bookify <= 1.0.9 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-48142
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published July 29, 2025
Last Updated August 4, 2025
Researcher Denver Jackson
Description

The Appointment Booking Plugin for WordPress | Efficient Booking, Calendar & Client Scheduling – Bookify plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.9. This is due to plugin missing capability checks on several REST API endpoints. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to create new user accounts with administrator privileges.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug bookify (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.0.9
Patched Version
  • 1.0.10
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