Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessReach public booking endpoint
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DeliverySend unauthenticated verification-email request
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ExploitSupply arbitrary recipient address
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ExecutionServer sends templated email
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ImpactAbuse for spam or resource exhaustion
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Authorization checks on every request
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | The site must run the Booking Package plugin at a version before 1.7.33 with its booking verification-code email workflow reachable, which is the default behavior of the booking feature. Exploitation requires no authentication, no user interaction, and no non-default configuration (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N). What limits real-world impact: the attacker gains no code execution, data access, or site modification - the only outcome is the site sending templated verification-code emails to attacker-chosen recipients, so harm is confined to email abuse, sender-reputation damage, and mail-resource consumption rather than compromise of the host. |
| Impact | This is a genuinely low-to-moderate priority issue, and the signals are consistent rather than conflicting. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L, base 5.3) correctly reflects remote, low-complexity, unauthenticated access with no confidentiality or integrity impact and only a limited availability/resource impact - the flaw lets an attacker make the server send templated verification-code emails, not compromise the site. EPSS reinforces low real-world risk at 0.15% (4th percentile), and there is no CISA KEV listing (not actively exploited) and no confirmed public exploit code. The vuln.today decision label is 'this_month', i.e. a routine patch item rather than act_now/emergency. The one caveat worth flagging: the PR:N / 'unauthenticated' claim rests on the vendor-supplied CVSS vector, which aligns with the description's 'unauthenticated users' wording, so authentication status is confirmed by that vector. Overall this is a high-reach-but-low-impact abuse-of-functionality bug (missing authorization, CWE-862), not a high-CVSS-but-overrated critical. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker remotely and without authentication sends crafted requests to the plugin's booking verification-code endpoint, supplying arbitrary recipient email addresses and causing the victim's site to deliver templated verification-code emails to those addresses. Because the recipient is not bound to server-side state, this can be abused to send unsolicited email from the trusted site (spam/annoyance, potential phishing lure, or sender-reputation damage) or to exhaust mail-sending resources. No public exploit identified at time of analysis; the trigger mechanism beyond 'triggering verification-code emails' is not detailed in the available sources. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 28, 2026
Unauthenticated email-relay abuse in the Booking Package WordPress plugin before version 1.7.33 lets remote attackers trigger the site's booking verification-code emails to arbitrary recipient addresses, because the plugin neither restricts who can invoke the workflow nor binds the recipient to server-side verification state. The flaw affects any WordPress installation running the plugin with the booking verification-code email workflow reachable, which is the default behaviour of the booking feature; exploitation requires no authentication, no user interaction and no non-default configuration. Impact is confined to email abuse, sender-reputation damage and mail-resource consumption rather than code execution, data access or site modification, and no public exploit has been identified at time of analysis (EPSS 0.15%, 4th percentile, no CISA KEV listing).
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: upgrade the Booking Package plugin to version 1.7.33 or later, which is the fixed release listed in the advisory (https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/59ceb45f-eb33-4103-bf75-d68b4f16e824/); patch availability is confirmed from the vendor via WPScan. Because the weakness is that the verification-code dispatch path is reachable without authorization and without binding the recipient to server-side state, updating is the complete fix and the sources do not describe a separate configuration workaround - until the upgrade is applied, sites that cannot immediately patch should be treated as able to emit templated booking emails to arbitrary addresses, with the practical exposure limited to mail abuse and sender-reputation damage. Prioritisation is this_month per the vuln.today decision label, consistent with EPSS 0.15% (4th percentile), no KEV listing and no public exploit identified at time of analysis.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
Booking Package is a WordPress plugin implementing a booking/reservation workflow that includes an email-based verification-code step intended to confirm a booker's address before a reservation is finalised. The defect is class CWE-862 (Missing Authorization): the handler that dispatches verification-code messages performs no capability or nonce check on the caller and does not tie the submitted recipient address to a server-side verification record, so the templated email is generated on request for any address supplied. In WordPress terms this means an unauthenticated visitor can reach the dispatch path directly rather than only through the intended booking flow. CPE-style affected range per EUVD is Booking Package 0 through versions before 1.7.33. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L) confirms the attack is network-reachable and unauthenticated, with no confidentiality or integrity effect and only a low availability impact reflecting mail-resource consumption; the trigger conditions specific to the email workflow are described in the advisory but the underlying send path is reachable by default once the booking feature is in use.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Remote, unauthenticated, no-interaction trigger (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N); no data disclosure or integrity change, only minor email/resource abuse, so C:N/I:N and A:L.
Primary rating from Vendor (wpscan).
CVSS VectorVendor: wpscan
Lifecycle Timeline
4DescriptionCVE.org
The Booking Package WordPress plugin before 1.7.33 does not restrict who can trigger its booking verification-code emails nor bind the recipient to server-side state, allowing unauthenticated users to make the site send templated verification-code emails to arbitrary recipients.
Threat Intelligence Overview
How this decision was reached
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
Priority Score
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EUVD-2026-111702
GHSA-jf6v-v63c-q8q2
NVD
CVE.org
EPSS
Exploit-DB