# CVE-2026-3045: Appointment Booking Calendar \<= 1.6.9.29 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure via Settings REST API Endpoint

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-03-13 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- croixhaug Appointment Booking Calendar — Simply Schedule Appointments Booking Plugin: through 1.6.9.29

## Description

The Appointment Booking Calendar — Simply Schedule Appointments plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of sensitive data in all versions up to and including 1.6.9.29. This is due to two compounding weaknesses: (1) a non-user-bound `public_nonce` is exposed to unauthenticated users through the public `/wp-json/ssa/v1/embed-inner` REST endpoint, and (2) the `get_item()` method in `SSA_Settings_Api` relies on `nonce_permissions_check()` for authorization (which accepts the public nonce) but does not call `remove_unauthorized_settings_for_current_user()` to filter restricted fields. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to access admin-only plugin settings including the administrator email, phone number, internal access tokens, notification configurations, and developer settings via the `/wp-json/ssa/v1/settings/{section}` endpoint. The exposure of appointment tokens also allows an attacker to modify or cancel appointments.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on croixhaug Appointment Booking Calendar — Simply Schedule Appointments Booking Plugin, 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/5970b8d6-0041-4c30-a6ce-fe67ebf415f5?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simply-schedule-appointments/tags/1.6.9.21/includes/class-settings-api.php#L128
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simply-schedule-appointments/tags/1.6.9.21/includes/lib/td-util/class-td-api-model.php#L361
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simply-schedule-appointments/tags/1.6.9.21/includes/class-bootstrap.php#L151
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3480506%40simply-schedule-appointments%2Ftrunk&old=3475885%40simply-schedule-appointments%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file0

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