Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessCraft URL with XSS payload in wpbc_auto_fill
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DeliveryDeliver link via phishing/social
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ExploitVictim clicks crafted link
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ExecutionReflected script executes in browser
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ImpactHijack session or perform actions in site origin
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization Output encoding, context-aware escaping
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Initial Access, Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires an attacker to deliver a crafted link containing a malicious payload in the 'wpbc_auto_fill' parameter to a page rendered by the Booking Calendar plugin (wpdevelop) on WordPress, versions up to and including 11.8.3, and requires the victim to click that link (UI:R). No authentication is needed by the attacker (PR:N). Limiting factors: the reflected (non-persistent) nature means each victim must be individually social-engineered into clicking; there is no server-side compromise, and impact is confined to script execution in the victim's browser within the site origin. Requires the affected plugin to be installed and the vulnerable page/endpoint reachable. |
| Impact | This is a reflected cross-site scripting flaw (CWE-79) with a vendor CVSS 3.1 score of 6.1 (Medium) via the vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N. The unauthenticated network vector and low complexity raise its reach, but exploitation is fundamentally gated by UI:R - a victim must be tricked into clicking a crafted link, and the payload only reflects (it does not persist), so there is no mass-exploitation primitive. Reported by Wordfence, a credible source for WordPress plugin issues. No EPSS probability, no CISA KEV listing, and no public POC are present in the provided data - meaning there is no signal of active or automatable exploitation; per precision rules this is 'no public exploit identified at time of analysis.' The confidentiality/integrity impacts are Low and the scope-change (S:C) reflects the classic browser-context escape typical of XSS rather than server compromise. Net: this is a real but modest-priority issue - a Medium-severity reflected XSS in a widely-installed plugin that is worth patching promptly but does not warrant emergency response absent exploitation signals. No key signals conflict; the description (unauthenticated, click-to-trigger) is consistent with the CVSS vector. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker crafts a URL to a vulnerable Booking Calendar page with a malicious script payload in the 'wpbc_auto_fill' parameter and distributes it via phishing email, forum post, or social media. When a logged-in administrator or site visitor clicks the link, the unsanitized parameter is reflected into the page and the script executes in their browser session in the site's origin. No public POC or exploit code is identified in the provided data. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 22, 2026
Reflected cross-site scripting in the WordPress Booking Calendar plugin (wpdevelop) affects every release up to and including 11.8.3, letting unauthenticated attackers craft a link that injects arbitrary JavaScript into a victim's browser within the target site's origin. Because the CVSS 3.1 vector is AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N (score 6.1, Medium), exploitation needs no credentials but does require a victim to click a malicious link, and the scope-change flag reflects that the injected script runs against the surrounding WordPress site rather than the plugin alone. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and no CISA KEV listing or exploit code has been associated with this issue.
RemediationAI
Upstream fix available (Trac changeset 3703002 against the 'booking' repository, https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3703002%40booking&new=3703002%40booking); a released patched plugin version number is not independently confirmed from the supplied data, so administrators should check the WordPress.org plugin page or the vendor advisory for the exact fixed release and upgrade to it or later, then verify the update actually replaced the vulnerable files. If upgrading is not immediately possible, the most effective compensating control is to deactivate the Booking Calendar plugin until it can be patched - the trade-off is complete loss of booking and calendar functionality on the site. Narrower options include blocking or stripping the 'wpbc_auto_fill' parameter at the WAF/reverse-proxy layer (trades off any legitimate use of that auto-fill feature, which may break calendar pre-population links) and adding a Content-Security-Policy that disallows inline and untrusted script sources (trades off potential breakage of other third-party scripts and inline handlers on the site). Because exploitation depends on user interaction, user awareness training not to click unsolicited links is only a partial mitigation and should not substitute for patching; note that the cross-origin scope-change rating means same-origin protections such as HttpOnly cookies on the WordPress session are worth confirming, but they do not eliminate the XSS itself.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The flaw is a classic CWE-79 improper neutralization of input during web page generation, rooted in missing sanitization of the 'wpbc_auto_fill' request parameter combined with insufficient output escaping when the value is written back into the rendered page. Booking Calendar is a WordPress plugin published by wpdevelop (CPE cpe:2.3:a:wpdevelop:booking_calendar:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*), and the vulnerable data flow is visible in its client-side JavaScript assets - the tag 11.8.3 references point to _dist/all/_src/wpbc_all.js (around lines 3370 and 3396) and js/wpbc_time-selector.js (around line 87), indicating the parameter is consumed by time-selector/auto-fill UI logic and reflected into the DOM. Because the payload is reflected rather than stored, there is no server-side persistence or database compromise; the injected script executes only in the browser of a user who follows a crafted URL, but it runs in the WordPress site origin, so it can reach cookies not marked HttpOnly, authenticated session context, and any same-origin DOM or API surface available to that page. The single-attack-per-victim model also means the issue cannot self-propagate the way a stored XSS worm would.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Unauthenticated reflected XSS delivered over the network (AV:N/PR:N) but requiring victim click (UI:R); browser-context execution crosses to another system (S:C) with limited C/I and no availability impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (Wordfence).
CVSS VectorVendor: Wordfence
DescriptionCVE.org
The Booking Calendar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'wpbc_auto_fill' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 11.8.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
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Cross-Site Scripting occurs when an application accepts untrusted data and sends it to a web browser without proper validation or encoding.
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