Appointment Booking Calendar <= 1.4.05 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'vs_text_submitbtn' Parameter
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- Not listed in CISA KEV
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- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
- Exploitation: none
- Automatable: no
- Technical impact: partial
Summary
The Appointment Booking Calendar plugin for WordPress, version 1.4.05 and earlier, is affected by a stored cross-site scripting flaw. An authenticated user with low-level access, such as a Subscriber who has been assigned as a calendar owner, can inject malicious scripts that run in the browsers of anyone who views the affected page, potentially allowing account actions or data theft on the site.
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The Appointment Booking Calendar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'vs_text_submitbtn' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.05 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This requires the attacker to be assigned as a calendar owner, a per-user grant that any administrator can extend to users as low as Subscriber level through the plugin's calendar list screen. Exploitation by attackers with subscriber-level access and above requires that an administrator has assigned the attacker's account as owner (`conwer`) of a calendar via the plugin's calendar list screen; the plugin's UI lists all registered users regardless of role, so a Subscriber can be assigned. On a default installation, where that is not configured, the vulnerability requires attackers with editor-level access and above.
Timeline
- CVE published
- First seen by cve.now
- CISA SSVC assessment
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
- Record last updated
Affected versions
- codepeople Appointment Booking Calendar
through 1.4.05
References 8
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- browser/appointment-booking-calendar/tags/1.4.05/inc/cpabc_scheduler.inc.php#L194
- browser/appointment-booking-calendar/tags/1.4.05/inc/cpabc_apps_go.inc.php#L690
- browser/appointment-booking-calendar/tags/1.4.05/inc/cpabc_apps_go.inc.php#L102
- browser/appointment-booking-calendar/tags/1.4.05/inc/cpabc_apps_go.inc.php#L616
- browser/appointment-booking-calendar/tags/1.4.05/inc/cpabc_apps_on.inc.php#L398
- log/appointment-booking-calendar
- changeset/3750835/appointment-booking-calendar/trunk/inc/cpabc_scheduler.inc.php