Salon booking system < 8.7 — Authenticated (Editor+) Privilege Escalation
CVE-2023-48319Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: <8.7Update to 8.7 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High7.2
- CVSS
- 7.2CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:HPrivileges required- High
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Weakness
- CWE-269 Privilege Escalation
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Salon Booking System – Appointment Booking for Salons, Barbershops & Spas salon-booking-system
- Affected< 8.7
- Patched in8.7
Update to 8.7 or newer.
You are affected if you run < 8.7. Version 8.7 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Salon Booking System – Appointment Booking for Salons, Barbershops & Spas.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 8.7, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Salon Booking System – Appointment Booking for Salons, Barbershops & Spas to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to lttn.
The Salon booking system plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, but excluding, 8.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with editor-level access and above, to escalate their privileges to that of an administrator.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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|---|---|---|---|
| Medium4.3 | Missing Authorization ≤10.31.10Update to 10.31.11 | CVE-2026-110032 | |
| High8.8 | 10.31.10 - Authenticated (Salon Staff+) Privilege Escalation 10.17 – 10.31.10Update to 10.31.11 | CVE-2026-110031 | |
| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Salon Staff+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤10.31.10Update to 10.31.11 | CVE-2026-110033 | |
| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Negative Booking Total Creation ≤10.31.10Update to 10.31.11 | CVE-2026-110034 | |
| Medium4.3 | Missing Authorization ≤10.31.10Update to 10.31.11 | CVE-2026-110035 |
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 7.2
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- [object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- VulnCrest content
- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.