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GHSA-3XWR-GHGC-2994

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-10-17 03:30 – Updated: 2026-10-17 03:30

Details

The Appointment Booking Plugin – LatePoint | Calendar & Scheduling for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass via Race Condition in all versions up to, and including, 5.7.4. This is due to a non-atomic read-modify-write on the OTP verification attempts counter in the verifyOTP function: the counter is incremented using a stale in-memory value with no conditional WHERE attempts < 10 guard on the UPDATE and no SELECT ... FOR UPDATE row lock, creating a TOCTOU window that allows concurrent requests to bypass the 10-attempt lockout. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers — who know a target customer's registered email address or phone number — to fire concurrent requests to the auth__verify_otp endpoint, defeat the lockout cap, brute-force the 6-digit OTP code, and authenticate as the targeted LatePoint customer, gaining full access to their account, bookings, and personal data. The nonce check present on the endpoint (otp_verify_otp_nonce) does not mitigate this issue, as the nonce is publicly emitted by the unauthenticated request_otp and resend_otp endpoints and is trivially obtainable by any unauthenticated attacker prior to launching the race.

Severity

9.1 (Critical)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

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CVE-2026-110653 (GCVE-0-2026-110653)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-17 02:31 – Updated: 2026-10-17 02:31

Title

Appointment Booking Plugin <= 5.7.4 - Unauthenticated Authentication Bypass via Race Condition on OTP Attempts Counter

Summary

The Appointment Booking Plugin – LatePoint | Calendar & Scheduling for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass via Race Condition in all versions up to, and including, 5.7.4. This is due to a non-atomic read-modify-write on the OTP verification attempts counter in the `verifyOTP` function: the counter is incremented using a stale in-memory value with no conditional `WHERE attempts < 10` guard on the `UPDATE` and no `SELECT ... FOR UPDATE` row lock, creating a TOCTOU window that allows concurrent requests to bypass the 10-attempt lockout. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers — who know a target customer's registered email address or phone number — to fire concurrent requests to the `auth__verify_otp` endpoint, defeat the lockout cap, brute-force the 6-digit OTP code, and authenticate as the targeted LatePoint customer, gaining full access to their account, bookings, and personal data. The nonce check present on the endpoint (`otp_verify_otp_nonce`) does not mitigate this issue, as the nonce is publicly emitted by the unauthenticated `request_otp` and `resend_otp` endpoints and is trivially obtainable by any unauthenticated attacker prior to launching the race.

Severity

9.1 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CWE

CWE-287 - Improper Authentication

Assigner

Wordfence CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 65/100 over 2313 records in the last 180 days details

References

7 references

URL	Tags
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabil…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/latepo…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/latepo…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/latepo…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/latepo…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/latepo…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/latepo…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
latepoint	Appointment Booking Plugin – LatePoint \| Calendar & Scheduling for WordPress	Affected: 0 , ≤ 5.7.4 (semver)

Credits

Ekene Umegakwe

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