WP Hotel Booking <= 2.0.8 — Insufficient Authorization to Unauthorized Post Deletion
CVE-2023-5799Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤2.0.8Update to 2.0.9 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium4.3
- CVSS
- 4.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:NConfidentiality- None
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
WP Hotel Booking wp-hotel-booking
- Affected≤ 2.0.8
- Patched in2.0.9
Update to 2.0.9 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 2.0.8. Version 2.0.9 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under WP Hotel Booking.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 2.0.9, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch WP Hotel Booking to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Erwan LR.
The WP Hotel Booking plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to insufficient authorization checks on the tp_extra_package_remove() function hooked via AJAX in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to delete arbitrary posts. While the patch for CVE-2023-5651 ensured subscriber-level users couldn't delete arbitrary posts, the checks were not sufficient in preventing higher authenticated users such as contributors from deleting arbitrary posts.
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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|---|---|---|---|
| Medium6.5 | Authenticated (Custom role+) SQL Injection <2.3.2Update to 2.3.2 | CVE-2026-15153 | |
| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'widget_search' Shortcode Attribute ≤2.3.2Update to 2.3.3 | CVE-2026-15464 | |
| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Price Manipulation ≤2.3.2Update to 2.3.3 | CVE-2026-15149 | |
| Medium6.1 | Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via 'check_in_date' Parameter ≤2.3.2Update to 2.3.3 | CVE-2026-15094 | |
| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity to Payment Bypass via PayPal IPN Handler ≤2.3.1Update to 2.3.2 | CVE-2026-11901 |
- Medium6.5Authenticated (Custom role+) SQL Injection
<2.3.2Update to 2.3.2
- Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'widget_search' Shortcode Attribute
≤2.3.2Update to 2.3.3
- Medium5.3Unauthenticated Price Manipulation
≤2.3.2Update to 2.3.3
- Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via 'check_in_date' Parameter
≤2.3.2Update to 2.3.3
- Medium5.3Unauthenticated Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity to Payment Bypass via PayPal IPN Handler
≤2.3.1Update to 2.3.2
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 4.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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