Service Finder Bookings <= 6.0 — Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via claim_business
CVE-2025-5948Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤6.0No patch available
What to do until a fix ships- 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≤ 6.0
- PatchedNo fix yet
No patched version available.
You are affected if you run ≤ 6.0. No fixed version has been released.
- 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
- No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
- 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 Foxyyy.
The Service Finder Bookings plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 6.0. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to claiming a business when using the claim_business AJAX action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to login as any user including admins. Please note that subscriber privileges or brute-forcing are needed when completing the business takeover. The claim_id is needed to takeover the admin account, but brute-forcing is a practical approach to obtaining valid IDs.
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 | Authentication Bypass via User Switch Cookie ≤6.0Update to 6.1 | CVE-2025-5947 |
- 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
- Critical9.8Authentication Bypass via User Switch Cookie
≤6.0Update to 6.1
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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