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Appointment Hour Booking EUVDEUVD-2026-80220

| CVE-2026-86475 MEDIUM
Improper Input Validation (CWE-20)
2026-09-16 WPScan GHSA-cqfw-wgfw-rqrw
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. Recon
    Browse public booking form
  2. Delivery
    Submit multi-appointment request
  3. Exploit
    Slot capacity check skipped per appointment
  4. Install
    Over-capacity reservation accepted
  5. C2
    Slot occupied by attacker
  6. Execute
    Legitimate bookings displaced
  7. Impact
    Booking integrity degraded

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V2 - Validation and Business Logic Input validation, allowlisting
Exploitation Conditions

No special conditions - remote unauthenticated exploitation against default configurations of the Appointment Hour Booking WordPress plugin, provided the site publishes a booking form that permits more than one appointment to be submitted in a single request (the flaw only manifests when the handler does not re-validate each appointment against its own slot capacity). Limits on exploitation: the target slot must already be at or above its configured capacity for the bypass to have any effect, the site must expose the booking form anonymously (forms restricted to logged-in users or approval-moderated bookings blunt the impact), and impact is confined to booking-table integrity - no code execution, file read, or data exfiltration is demonstrated. Authentication requirements are confirmed by the CVSS vector as PR:N (unauthenticated).

Impact

CVSS 3.1 scores this 5.3 with a fully remote, unauthenticated, low-complexity vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N) but only a Low integrity impact and no confidentiality or availability impact at the metric level - an accurate reflection that the attacker corrupts booking state rather than executing code or exfiltrating data. WPScan confirms publicly available exploit code, so weaponization is trivial for anyone wanting to grief a booking calendar, yet there is no CISA KEV entry and no evidence of targeted or widespread exploitation, which keeps real-world priority moderate. The practical harm is operational and financial (double-booked resources, cancelled or displaced legitimate reservations, support burden) rather than a compromised server; defenders running appointment-driven services (clinics, salons, rentals, consultancies) should still patch promptly because the abuse is anonymous and automatable. No SSVC exploitation status beyond 'POC' is provided, and no EPSS score was supplied - treat the mass-exploitation likelihood as unquantified rather than low by default.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker (or a competitor, or a script) identifies a public booking page for a service whose slots are already fully booked and submits a crafted multi-appointment booking request that targets one or more of those saturated slots. Because the plugin validates capacity for the submission as a whole rather than per appointment, the over-capacity reservation is accepted, consuming the slot and displacing or confusing legitimate bookings. The attack is unauthenticated, low complexity, and repeatable at scale with publicly available exploit code, so an entire day's schedule can be saturated for nuisance or competitive advantage.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
Patch available 0.3% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Sep 16, 2026

Unauthenticated attackers can book time slots in the Appointment Hour Booking WordPress plugin (before 1.5.95) that have already reached their configured capacity, because each appointment in a multi-appointment booking submission is not validated against the capacity limit of its own slot. The plugin assigns a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N, integrity-only impact), meaning any anonymous visitor can submit a crafted booking form and overwrite or occupy fully booked slots, denying legitimate customers their reservations. Publicly available exploit code exists per WPScan, but the issue is not listed in CISA KEV and EPSS-style mass exploitation signals are absent, so this is best treated as a business-logic abuse and booking-integrity risk rather than a code-execution emergency.

RemediationAI

Vendor-released patch: upgrade the Appointment Hour Booking plugin to 1.5.95 or later from the WordPress plugin repository or via WP-CLI ('wp plugin update appointment-hour-booking'), and verify the installed version after upgrade since WordPress sometimes leaves stale plugin code. If immediate patching is not possible, reduce exposure by disabling public booking forms that allow multiple appointment selections in one submission, temporarily setting slots to require manual administrator approval so a human validates capacity before confirmation, or rate-limiting and CAPTCHA-gating the booking endpoint - each of these adds friction for legitimate customers and does not fix the underlying validation gap. Review recent booking records for duplicated or over-capacity reservations as an indicator of abuse. Track the WPScan advisory (https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b7b45dae-bc91-4142-ae9b-5c8b39791cda/) for further detail; no independent vendor changelog confirming the fix was included in the supplied data.

Affected VersionsENISA

Appointment Hour Booking 0 <1.5.95

Affected Packages

euvd appointment_hour_booking fix: 1.5.95

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 the Appointment Hour Booking plugin for WordPress, a scheduling/booking extension whose form handler accepts one or more appointment selections and records them into the site's booking table. The defect is a business-logic validation gap rather than a memory-safety or injection flaw: when a submission contains several appointments, the plugin does not re-check the remaining capacity of each individual slot before writing the reservation, so a slot whose capacity counter is already full can still be taken. Because the handler runs through the standard WordPress front-end request path (admin-ajax / form POST), no authentication or elevated role is required - CPE data (cpe:2.3:a:unknown:appointment_hour_booking:*) marks all versions below 1.5.95 as affected, though the CPE vendor field is recorded as 'unknown' and should be verified against the plugin's actual vendor (CodePeople) before use in automated matching. The vulnerability maps loosely to CWE-837/840-class business-logic and capacity-check flaws; no CWE was supplied in the source data.

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Severity by source

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

Anonymous network-reachable booking form with no auth or interaction, but impact limited to booking-state integrity with no confidentiality or availability loss.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/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
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

Lifecycle Timeline

2
Patch available
Sep 16, 2026 - 07:01 EUVD
CVE Published
Sep 16, 2026 - 06:30 cve.org
MEDIUM 5.3

DescriptionCVE.org

The Appointment Hour Booking WordPress plugin before 1.5.95 does not check every appointment in a booking submission against the capacity configured for its own slot, allowing unauthenticated visitors to take slots that are already fully booked.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.3%
Top 83% exploitable
Prevalence
Low
niche WordPress scheduling plugin, limited to booking-driven sites
Exploit
POC
Public exploit code exists
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 Yes
EPSS 0.3%
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· derived
Poc
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable· derived
Yes
Human Impact· derived
Medium

Priority Score

46
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +26
PoC: +20
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.

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