Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar – Amelia <= 1.2.38 — Authenticated (Employee+) Privilege Escalation
CVE-2026-24963Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.2.38Update to 2.0 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High8.8
- CVSS
- 8.8CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar – Amelia ameliabooking
- Affected≤ 1.2.38
- Patched in2.0
Update to 2.0 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.2.38. Version 2.0 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar – Amelia.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 2.0, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar – Amelia to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to daroo.
The Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar – Amelia plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.38. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with employee-level access and above, to elevate 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
Related CVEs
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|---|---|---|---|
| High7.5 | Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Event Attendee Data Exposure via '/report/event/attendees' Endpoint 9.0 – 9.9.1Update to 9.9.2 | CVE-2026-107616 | |
| Medium6.5 | Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Custom+) Sensitive Information Disclosure via '/report/event/bookings' Endpoint 9.0 – 9.9.1Update to 9.9.2 | CVE-2026-104992 | |
| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'page' Parameter ≤2.4.12Update to 2.4.13 | CVE-2026-103915 | |
| Medium5.3 | Missing Authorization ≤2.4.10Update to 2.4.11 | CVE-2026-116388 | |
| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤2.4.12Update to 2.4.13 | CVE-2026-116396 |
- High7.5Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Event Attendee Data Exposure via '/report/event/attendees' Endpoint
9.0 – 9.9.1Update to 9.9.2
- Medium6.5Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Custom+) Sensitive Information Disclosure via '/report/event/bookings' Endpoint
9.0 – 9.9.1Update to 9.9.2
- Medium5.3Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'page' Parameter
≤2.4.12Update to 2.4.13
- Medium5.3Missing Authorization
≤2.4.10Update to 2.4.11
- Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.4.12Update to 2.4.13
Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 8.8
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
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