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Course Booking System CVE-2026-96886

| EUVDEUVD-2026-89626 MEDIUM
Information Exposure (CWE-200)
2026-09-30 contact@wpscan.com GHSA-xm8x-c5rq-f7r4
5.3
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: wpscan
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Identify site running vulnerable plugin
  2. Exploit
    Send unauthenticated request to booking export
  3. Execution
    Server returns unprotected customer export
  4. Impact
    Harvest names, emails, billing addresses

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V14 - Data Protection Data exposure prevention
MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques across 2 tactics: Collection, Discovery

The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up.

Exploitation Conditions

No special conditions - remote unauthenticated exploitation against default configurations of the Course Booking System WordPress plugin (versions 7.0 through before 7.0.9). The plugin's booking-export function lacks an access-control/capability check, so any anonymous visitor reaching the export endpoint can retrieve the data. The only meaningful limiting factors are that the site must run an affected version of this specific plugin and must have stored course bookings containing customer PII; impact is confined to disclosure of already-collected booking data (name, email, billing address) with no write access or code execution.

Impact

This is a genuine but moderate-severity exposure. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N, base 5.3) is internally consistent with the description: an unauthenticated network attacker can trivially trigger a booking export that leaks customer PII (name, email, billing address), with confidentiality-only, partial impact and no integrity or availability effect. SSVC reinforces this reading - Exploitation 'none' (no observed exploitation), Automatable 'yes' (a single unauthenticated HTTP request can be scripted and mass-run against many sites), and Technical Impact 'partial' (limited data disclosure, not full system compromise). No EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no public POC were provided, so exploitation status is 'no public exploit identified at time of analysis' despite the trivial exploitability. The practical priority is elevated by the near-zero attack complexity and automatability against a WordPress plugin (a mass-scannable target class), but capped by the low, confidentiality-only impact - this is a real data-privacy/GDPR concern rather than a critical RCE. No signals conflict; the main missing data are EPSS and any independent POC confirmation.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker enumerates WordPress sites running the Course Booking System plugin and sends a crafted unauthenticated request to the unprotected booking-export endpoint. The server returns a downloadable file containing the name, email address, and billing address of every customer who booked a course, which the attacker harvests for spam, phishing, or resale. No authentication or user interaction is required, and the request is easily automated across many sites; no public POC is currently identified.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
Patch available 0.2% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Sep 30, 2026

Unauthenticated information disclosure in the Course Booking System WordPress plugin (versions 7.0 through before 7.0.9) lets any anonymous visitor download the full booking export, exposing the name, email address, and billing address of every customer who has booked a course. The flaw is an access-control gap in the plugin's export function (CWE-200), reachable over the network with no privileges or user interaction required (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N, 5.3). This is a genuine but moderate-severity exposure: impact is confined to confidentiality of already-collected booking PII, with no write capability or code execution, and there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and no indication of active exploitation (CISA SSVC exploitation: none).

RemediationAI

Upgrade the Course Booking System WordPress plugin to 7.0.9 or later, the first release outside the affected range (<7.0.9); this is the vendor-released fix and the only complete remediation, so prioritize it and verify the plugin version after updating. Consult the WPScan advisory (https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/bdf459bb-7835-43d3-8ef8-83b3b099677a/) and the NVD entry (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-96886) for vendor-specific guidance. If immediate upgrading is not possible, the most direct compensating control is to block anonymous access to the plugin's export endpoint at the web server, reverse proxy, or WAF layer - e.g. deny unauthenticated requests targeting the export action on admin-ajax.php/admin-post.php or the plugin's export path - while leaving authenticated administrator traffic permitted; the trade-off is that overly broad rules can break legitimate admin exports and must be tuned and monitored. Removing or deactivating the plugin entirely eliminates the exposure if course booking is not in active use, at the cost of losing that functionality. Because the leaked data is customer PII (name, email, billing address), also review web and access logs for prior unauthenticated export requests and treat confirmed downloads as a data-breach event subject to applicable notification obligations (e.g. GDPR). Note that no public exploit code was identified at time of analysis, but the vulnerability is rated automatable by CISA SSVC, so rapid patching is warranted.

Affected VersionsENISA

Course Booking System 7.0 <7.0.9

Affected Packages

euvd course_booking_system fix: 7.0.9

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

The affected component is a WordPress plugin that manages course bookings and provides an administrative export routine for downloading stored booking records. Per CWE-200 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor), the export handler performs no capability or authorization check - it does not verify that the caller is an authenticated administrator (for example via current_user_can with an appropriate capability) and does not validate a nonce before streaming the export. Because the endpoint is reachable through normal WordPress request handling (e.g. admin-ajax.php or admin-post.php actions), the missing check means the export is served to anonymous HTTP clients just as it would be to a logged-in administrator. The underlying technology is PHP running on WordPress; the sensitive data at rest consists of booking records containing customer name, email, and billing address. The CVSS vector confirms the root cause: PR:N and UI:N indicate no authentication and no user interaction are required, and the scope-unchanged, low-confidentiality-impact profile matches bulk read-out of existing records without affecting integrity or availability. No CPE strings were supplied by the intelligence sources; affected-version data comes from the vendor advisory and the ENISA EUVD entry (EUVD-2026-89626), which lists Course Booking System 7.0 to before 7.0.9.

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Severity by source

Vendor (wpscan) PRIMARY 5.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
vuln.today AI 5.3 MEDIUM

Unauthenticated remote export requires no privileges, user interaction, or special conditions (PR:N/UI:N/AC:L); confidentiality-only PII leak yields C:L with no integrity or availability impact.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (wpscan).

CVSS VectorVendor: wpscan

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None

Lifecycle Timeline

3
Patch available
Sep 30, 2026 - 07:01 EUVD
CVE Published
Sep 30, 2026 - 06:17 cve.org
MEDIUM 5.3
CVE Published
Sep 30, 2026 - 06:17 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)

DescriptionCVE.org

The Course Booking System WordPress plugin before 7.0.9 does not restrict access to its booking export, allowing unauthenticated users to download the name, email address and billing address of every customer who has booked a course.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 90% exploitable
Prevalence
Medium
niche WordPress booking plugin, moderate but not ubiquitous install base
Data Quality
4 sources
Confidence: Medium

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity MEDIUM
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.2%
Patch available Yes
Active threat No
Deciding rule
MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
Yes
Human Impact· derived
Medium
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

26
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +26
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

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