reputeinfosystems Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Online Scheduling Plugin – BookingPress bookingpress_import_data_continue_process_func insufficient permissions or privileges

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A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in reputeinfosystems Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Online Scheduling Plugin – BookingPress up to 1.1.5 on WordPress. The impacted element is the function bookingpress_import_data_continue_process_func. The manipulation results in insufficient permissions or privileges. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2024-6660. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in reputeinfosystems Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Online Scheduling Plugin – BookingPress up to 1.1.5 on WordPress. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is the function bookingpress_import_data_continue_process_func. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a insufficient permissions or privileges vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-280. The product does not handle or incorrectly handles when it has insufficient privileges to access resources or functionality as specified by their permissions. This may cause it to follow unexpected code paths that may leave the product in an invalid state. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The BookingPress – Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Online Scheduling Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the bookingpress_import_data_continue_process_func function in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update arbitrary options on the WordPress site and upload arbitrary files. This can be leveraged to update the default role for registration to administrator and enable user registration for attackers to gain administrative user access to a vulnerable site.

The weakness was released by Khayal Farzaliyev. The advisory is available at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-6660 since 07/10/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation needs additional levels of successful authentication. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1222 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Appointment Software

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• reputeinfosystems

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• Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Online Scheduling Plugin – BookingPress

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• 1.1.0
• 1.1.1
• 1.1.2
• 1.1.3
• 1.1.4
• 1.1.5

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