# CVE-2026-17538: Appointment Booking Plugin – LatePoint | Calendar & Scheduling for WordPress \<= 5.6.9 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Insecure Direct Object Reference to Arbitrary Customer PII Modification

- Severity: CVSS 5.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-10-07 · Updated: 2026-10-10

## Affected

- latepoint Appointment Booking Plugin – LatePoint | Calendar & Scheduling for WordPress: through 5.6.9

## Description

The LatePoint - Appointment Booking & Reservation plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in versions up to, and including, 5.6.9. This is due to the process_step_customer() function using is_user_logged_in() as the sole gate before merging POSTed customer data into an existing LatePoint customer, without any ownership checks. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to modify the personal information (first name, last name, email, phone, notes) of arbitrary LatePoint customers, and, when the contact_merge setting is 'phone', to overwrite the victim's email address and take over the account via a password reset.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on latepoint Appointment Booking Plugin – LatePoint | Calendar & Scheduling for WordPress, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/83cdc51f-b5e1-42b9-972a-7e781f97b43e?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3631493/

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