LatePoint Plugin up to 5.4.1 on WordPress execute privileges management

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A vulnerability was found in LatePoint Plugin up to 5.4.1 on WordPress. It has been classified as critical. Affected is the function execute. This manipulation causes privileges management. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2026-6741. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in LatePoint Plugin up to 5.4.1 on WordPress. Affected by this vulnerability is the function execute. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The LatePoint – Calendar Booking Plugin for Appointments and Events plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in versions up to and including 5.4.1. This is due to a missing authorization check in the execute() method of the connect-customer-to-wp-user ability, which only requires the customer__edit capability granted to the latepoint_agent role by default, without verifying whether the target WordPress user ID belongs to a privileged account. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with the latepoint_agent role to link any LatePoint customer record to an administrator's WordPress account and subsequently reset the administrator's password via the normal customer password-reset flow, resulting in full site takeover.

The weakness was published by Valase Paul, Chirita Catalin-Andrei and Ramon Mateas. It is possible to read the advisory at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-6741 since 04/21/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 5.4.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• LatePoint Plugin

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• 5.4.0
• 5.4.1

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