FKIE_CVE-2026-40780

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-06-02 16:16 - Updated: 2026-07-22 19:10
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Summary
Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel vulnerability in Liquid Web / StellarWP BookIt allows Password Recovery Exploitation. This issue affects BookIt: from n/a before 2.5.4.1.
References
audit@patchstack.comhttps://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/bookit/vulnerability/wordpress-bookit-plugin-2-5-1-broken-authentication-vulnerability?_s_id=cve
Impacted products
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  "lastModified": "2026-07-22T19:10:00.120",
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