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GHSA-PQCG-GW2F-RQP8

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-09-08 12:31 – Updated: 2026-09-08 12:31

Details

The Online Scheduling and Appointment Booking System – Bookly plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'updateAddon' function in all versions up to, and including, 27.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update any plugin with a main file of 'main.php' to its latest version.

Severity

5.4 (Medium)


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

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CVE-2026-2520 (GCVE-0-2026-2520)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-08 11:30 – Updated: 2026-09-08 12:01

Title

Online Scheduling and Appointment Booking System – Bookly <= 27.2 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Limited Arbitrary Plugin Update

Summary

Severity

5.4 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-09-08 12:01 UTC

CWE

CWE-862 - Missing Authorization

Assigner

Wordfence mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabil…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bookly…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bookly…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3504922/

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
ladela	Online Scheduling and Appointment Booking System – Bookly	Affected: 0 , ≤ 27.2 (semver)

Credits

KoreaInfoSec

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GHSA-PQCG-GW2F-RQP8

CVE-2026-2520 (GCVE-0-2026-2520)

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