Service Finder Bookings <= 5.0 — Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Account Takeover
CVE-2024-13442Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤5.0Update to 5.1 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Critical9.8
- CVSS
- 9.8CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Service Finder Bookings sf-booking
- Affected≤ 5.0
- Patched in5.1
Update to 5.1 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 5.0. Version 5.1 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Service Finder Bookings.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
- No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.
What to do
- Update to version 5.1, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Service Finder Bookings to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Tonn.
The Service Finder Bookings plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 5.0. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to (1) performing a post-booking auto-login or (2) updating their profile details (e.g. password). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to (1) login as an arbitrary user if their email address is known or (2) change an arbitrary user's password, including administrators, and leverage that to gain access to their account.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in Service Finder Bookings
All 9| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| High8.8 | Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation ≤6.2No patch available | CVE-2026-28161 | |
| Medium4.3 | Missing Authorization ≤6.2No patch available | CVE-2026-28159 | |
| High8.8 | Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via Account Takeover <6.1Update to 6.1 | CVE-2025-6574 | |
| High8.8 | Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via change_candidate_password ≤6.0Update to 6.1 | CVE-2025-5949 | |
| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via claim_business ≤6.0No patch available | CVE-2025-5948 |
- High8.8Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation
≤6.2No patch available
- Medium4.3Missing Authorization
≤6.2No patch available
- High8.8Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via Account Takeover
<6.1Update to 6.1
- High8.8Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via change_candidate_password
≤6.0Update to 6.1
- Critical9.8Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via claim_business
≤6.0No patch available
Timeline
CVE published
Severity critical, CVSS 9.8
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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