Description
The LatePoint – Calendar Booking Plugin for Appointments and Events plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in versions up to and including 5.4.1. This is due to a missing authorization check in the execute() method of the connect-customer-to-wp-user ability, which only requires the customer__edit capability granted to the latepoint_agent role by default, without verifying whether the target WordPress user ID belongs to a privileged account. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with the latepoint_agent role to link any LatePoint customer record to an administrator's WordPress account and subsequently reset the administrator's password via the normal customer password-reset flow, resulting in full site takeover.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
latepoint LatePoint – Calendar Booking Plugin for Appointments and Events
Default version status: unaffected
0 to ≤ 5.4.1affected
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/71e99412-031e-4f4a-9126-dd3a37975246?source=cve ↗
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/latepoint/tags/5.4.1/lib/abilities/customers/connect-customer-to-wp-user.php ↗
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/latepoint/tags/5.4.1/lib/models/customer_model.php ↗
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/latepoint/tags/5.4.1/lib/helpers/roles_helper.php ↗
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/latepoint/ ↗
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3514330/latepoint ↗