Booking Package <= 1.5.98 - Authorization Bypass to Arbitrary Password Reset

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE CVE-2023-37389
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published July 5, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Rafie Muhammad
Description

The Booking Package plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authorization Bypass in versions up to, and including 1.5.98 due to missing validation in the 'updateUser' function. This allows unauthenticated attackers to reset the email and password of any user on the site if they know the username. Note that only sites that have an active premium subscription are vulnerable.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug booking-package (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.5.99
Patched Version
  • 1.5.99
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