Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate with low-privileged account
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ExploitSend request with manipulated object ID
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ExecutionBypass access-control check (IDOR)
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ImpactRead or modify other users' appointment data
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Object-level authorization, IDOR prevention
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| Exploitation Conditions | Requires an authenticated low-privileged account on a WordPress site running Simply Schedule Appointments version up to and including 1.6.12.35; the attacker must reach a plugin endpoint that accepts a user-controlled object key (e.g. appointment/booking ID) and fails to verify ownership (CWE-639 IDOR). Limiting factors: exploitation needs valid credentials (PR:L, so not pre-auth), is confined to the object types the vulnerable endpoint exposes, and yields only partial read/modify access rather than full account or site takeover; no user interaction is required. |
| Impact | This is a moderate, authenticated-user authorization flaw rather than a top-priority emergency. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L, base 6.3) indicates a network-reachable, low-complexity attack that nonetheless requires PR:L - i.e. a valid low-privileged authenticated account - and yields only Low confidentiality and integrity impact, consistent with an IDOR/broken-object-level-authorization issue (CWE-639). No EPSS score was supplied, the CVE is NOT on CISA KEV, and no public exploit is referenced, so there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis; SSVC-style signals (no confirmed exploitation, impact partial, automatability unclear) point to Track/Attend rather than Act. The main caveat: the input Tag labels this 'Authentication Bypass,' but the CWE-639 classification and the Patchstack reference both describe an Insecure Direct Object Reference (authorization bypass), so treat it as privilege-scoped data access by an already-authenticated user, not a pre-auth login bypass. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker who holds any low-privileged account on a WordPress site running Simply Schedule Appointments manipulates a user-controlled object identifier (e.g. an appointment or record ID) in a plugin request to read or modify appointment data belonging to other users. Because PR:L is required and no user interaction is needed, a logged-in customer or subscriber could enumerate and tamper with other bookings. No public proof-of-concept is referenced at time of analysis. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 15, 2026
Authenticated users with low-privileged WordPress accounts can exploit an insecure direct object reference (IDOR) in the Simply Schedule Appointments plugin through version 1.6.12.35 to read and alter appointment and booking records belonging to other users, because the plugin's endpoints accept a user-controlled object key without verifying ownership. The flaw requires valid credentials (CVSS vector PR:L, so it is not pre-auth) and yields only partial confidentiality and integrity impact rather than full site takeover; no public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV, making this a moderate, authenticated-user authorization weakness rather than an emergency. Sites that grant subscriber-level or other low-privilege accounts are the primary exposure surface.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch version is identified in the available data, so the primary action is to update Simply Schedule Appointments to the newest release published by NSquared and verify against the Plugin page or the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/simply-schedule-appointments/vulnerability/wordpress-simply-schedule-appointments-plugin-1-6-12-35-insecure-direct-object-references-idor-vulnerability?_s_id=cve that the fix is included, since 1.6.12.35 is confirmed vulnerable. If an update is not yet available, apply compensating controls: audit and tighten the site's role assignments so untrusted users cannot hold any authenticated account (removing the PR:L precondition entirely), and where possible restrict or block access to the plugin's booking and appointment AJAX/REST endpoints for non-administrative roles with a WAF or server-level rule - the trade-off is that legitimate front-end booking flows used by customers may break if those routes are filtered too aggressively. Disabling the plugin removes the exposure completely at the cost of losing scheduling functionality, and enabling detailed request and audit logging on plugin endpoints gives visibility into ID enumeration attempts, though it does not prevent the IDOR itself. Because the root cause is a missing object ownership check in plugin code, no configuration change fully substitutes for the upstream fix.
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The vulnerability is an instance of CWE-639 (Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key), the classic insecure direct object reference pattern, mapped to an authorization-bypass weakness in the NSquared Simply Schedule Appointments WordPress plugin. In WordPress plugins of this type, booking and appointment objects are typically retrieved through AJAX actions or REST routes that accept an identifier (appointment ID, booking key, or similar) directly from the request, and the defect is that the handler performs authentication checks but omits the object-level ownership or capability check that would confirm the requesting user is entitled to that specific record. CPE data (cpe:2.3:a:nsquared:simply_schedule_appointments:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*) confirms the affected component is the plugin itself, covering all releases up to and including 1.6.12.35, deployed on a WordPress host. Because the attacker controls the identifier, iterating or guessing IDs exposes other users' scheduling data and, per the assessed vector (C:L/I:L/A:N), permits partial modification of those records as well. The attack is network-reachable (AV:N), requires low privileges (PR:L), and needs no user interaction (UI:N), so a single legitimately registered low-privilege account is sufficient to probe the vulnerable endpoint.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
IDOR reachable over the network by an authenticated low-privileged user (PR:L, AC:L), giving partial read/modify of other users' records (C:L/I:L); no clear availability impact, so A:N.
Primary rating from Vendor (Patchstack).
CVSS VectorVendor: Patchstack
DescriptionCVE.org
Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability in NSquared Simply Schedule Appointments simply-schedule-appointments allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Simply Schedule Appointments: from n/a through 1.6.12.35.
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