Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessRegister/obtain subscriber account
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DeliveryAuthenticate to WordPress
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ExploitSend settings-update request with victim's user ID
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ExecutionOverwrite arbitrary user's plugin per-user settings
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ImpactTamper with admin/other-user configuration
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 the Booking Manager WordPress plugin (version before 2.1.21) installed and active, and an attacker holding any authenticated account at subscriber level or above (PR:L) - open user registration makes this trivial to obtain. The vulnerable settings-update handler does not verify that the target account equals the requesting user, so the attacker supplies an arbitrary user ID. No user interaction (UI:N) and no non-default configuration are required beyond having the plugin active; the limiting factors are the need for a valid low-privilege session and that impact is confined to overwriting per-user plugin settings (integrity-only, I:L). |
| Impact | This is a low-to-moderate priority authorization flaw, not a high-urgency issue. The provided CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N, base 4.3) is internally consistent with the description: network-reachable, low complexity, but requiring low-privilege authentication (any subscriber-level+ account) and yielding only limited integrity impact (C:N/I:L/A:N) - the attacker can create or overwrite another user's plugin-specific per-user settings but gains no confidentiality or availability impact and no direct privilege escalation from the CVSS scoring. No EPSS score, CISA KEV listing, or public POC is present in the provided data, so there is no signal of active exploitation or ready-made exploit code. The main aggravating factor is that targets can include administrators, so depending on what those per-user settings control, an attacker could theoretically tamper with an admin's plugin behavior; however, the CVE data caps impact at I:L, so this remains a targeted, authenticated integrity-tampering issue rather than a mass-exploitation candidate. Note the 'Authentication Bypass' tag conflicts with the actual weakness (CWE-639, an authorization/IDOR flaw, not an authentication bypass) - the flaw does NOT bypass login, it requires a valid low-privilege account. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker registers or obtains any subscriber-level account on a WordPress site running Booking Manager before 2.1.21, then sends a settings-modification request specifying another user's ID - including an administrator - to create or overwrite that user's plugin-specific per-user settings. No public exploit code is identified at time of analysis, and exploitation requires only a low-privilege authenticated session (PR:L, AC:L, no user interaction). |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 23, 2026
Authenticated users with only subscriber-level access can overwrite the Booking Manager per-user settings of any other account, including administrators, in WordPress plugin versions before 2.1.21, because the settings-update handler accepts an attacker-supplied target user identifier without checking that it belongs to the requester (CWE-639). The flaw is rated CVSS 4.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N): it needs only a valid low-privilege session - trivially obtained wherever self-registration is open - and its impact is confined to unauthorized modification of per-user plugin settings, with no confidentiality or availability loss. Vendor patched versions are available (2.1.21 is the first unaffected release), and no public exploit code or confirmed active exploitation was identified at time of analysis.
RemediationAI
Upgrade the Booking Manager WordPress plugin to version 2.1.21 or later, the first release not listed as affected, using the WordPress plugin updater or by downloading the fixed package from the vendor; patch availability is confirmed by the vendor and referenced through the WPScan advisory at https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6e010e3e-78e8-4bfc-b880-d9a85cff2c2a/ (NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-91025). If upgrading cannot be done immediately, deactivate the plugin until maintenance is possible, which removes the attack surface entirely at the cost of losing booking functionality; alternatively, close self-registration or restrict new accounts so the low-privilege subscriber foothold is not freely available, though existing subscribers and any registered user retain the capability, so this is only a partial mitigation. A WAF or reverse-proxy rule can block requests to the plugin's settings-update endpoint whose target user ID differs from the authenticated session's own ID, but this requires knowing the exact action/route name and carries false-positive risk if administrators legitimately edit other users' plugin settings, so test in monitor mode first. Finally, audit stored per-user Booking Manager settings for unexpected changes, particularly for administrator accounts, since tampering may have occurred before the update; rotating credentials is not required, as this flaw does not expose secrets or enable privilege escalation.
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Booking Manager is a WordPress plugin that stores configuration on a per-user basis, typically in user meta, and exposes an update handler (commonly via admin-ajax.php or a REST route) that accepts a user identifier alongside the settings payload. The handler performs authentication checks - any logged-in account passes - but fails to verify authorization on the target object, so the caller can substitute an arbitrary user ID. This is the classic CWE-639 'Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key' (IDOR) pattern: the security decision is based on a client-controlled key rather than on the server-side session identity or a capability check such as current_user_can() for the target account. Because WordPress assigns the subscriber role to self-registered users by default and subscribers are otherwise heavily restricted, an attacker needs no special privileges beyond a session; the missing ownership comparison is the sole obstacle, and it is absent. Severity is capped by the narrow blast radius: only per-user plugin settings are writable, not WordPress core roles, passwords, or site content, yielding an integrity-only (I:L) impact that still matters because overwriting an administrator's plugin preferences can alter booking behavior, notifications, or defaults under the admin's identity.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Any authenticated subscriber+ (PR:L) can remotely (AV:N) and without interaction overwrite others' per-user settings - integrity-only (I:L), no confidentiality or availability impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (wpscan).
CVSS VectorVendor: wpscan
Lifecycle Timeline
4DescriptionCVE.org
The Booking Manager WordPress plugin before 2.1.21 does not verify that a request to modify a user's Booking Manager WordPress plugin before 2.1.21-specific settings targets the requesting user's own account, allowing any authenticated user with subscriber-level access and above to create or overwrite the Booking Manager WordPress plugin before 2.1.21's per-user settings on arbitrary users, including administrators.
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