CVE-2026-92619: Booking Calendar <= 11.8.2 - Authenticated (Editor+) Privilege Escalation to 'data_name' Parameter
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 28/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.65% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 51.9% of all records.
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. Administrator privileges are required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
- According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.
- Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).
Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
The Booking Calendar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 11.8.2 via the `wpbc_ajax_option_save` AJAX action. The vulnerability exists because the `handle_ajax_save()` function applies per-option safeguards only to names explicitly registered via `register_option_policy()`, causing `get_option_policy()` to return an empty policy — bypassing all can_save, force_mode, and allowed_keys checks — for any unregistered option name, including core WordPress options, while an attacker-controlled `data_name` parameter passes through `sanitize_key()` and is written directly to `update_option()` without restriction. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with Editor-level access and above to escalate their privileges to Administrator by writing core WordPress options such as `default_role=administrator` and `users_can_register=1`, then self-registering a new Administrator account. The nonce check does not meaningfully restrict this attack, as both the nonce value and nonce action are attacker-supplied POST parameters, and a valid nonce is trivially obtainable via `admin-ajax.php?action=rest-nonce`.
- Published
- Sep 18, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 18, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.6% · 51th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-269
Report tools
Action score
28
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 28 / 40 · 7.2 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.6%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- total
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- —
- CNA · Wordfence
- 7.2
- NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
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Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Wordfence). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
wpdevelop Booking Calendar
- up to and including 11.8.2affected · semver
Same product
wpdevelop: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2026-32358WordPress Booking Calendar plugin <= 10.14.15 - SQL Injection vulnerability30Monitor
- CVE-2025-14383Booking Calendar <= 10.14.8 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection via dates_to_check30Monitor
- CVE-2026-59558WordPress Booking Calendar plugin <= 11.4.2 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability28Monitor
Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2026-74002Sep 17, 2026 · WordPress Booking Calendar plugin <= 11.7 - Broken Access Control vulnerability21Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2026-92561Sep 18, 2026 · Booking Calendar <= 11.8.2 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via 'options' Parameter24Monitor
- Later →CVE-2026-93655Sep 22, 2026 · Booking Calendar <= 11.8.3 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via 'wpbc_auto_fill' Parameter24Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
- Wordfence PRISMfinder
National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)
Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.
- TR-26-1135 · Sep 21, 2026(WordPress Eklenti Güvenlik Bildirimi)
Not on record for this CVE: patch commit or PR link · variant or chain candidate · public bounty program.
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- Administrator privileges are required.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- high · data can be read
- Integrity
- high · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- high · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-269 · Improper Privilege ManagementCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvd-secondary
Root cause
To simplify setup, a service account is granted broad, cluster-wide permissions. The principle of least privilege is skipped during installation.
The bug in code
The whole CWE-269 classA representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.
Vulnerable
kind: ClusterRole
rules:
- apiGroups: ["*"]
resources: ["*"]
verbs: ["*"]Fixed
kind: Role
metadata:
namespace: lodos-system
rules:
- apiGroups: ["apps"]
resources: ["deployments"]
verbs: ["get", "list", "update"]Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Change log (0)
No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.
References
Show all references (5 more)Show less
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/booking/tags/11.8.2/includes/save-load-option/save-load-option.php#L138
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/booking/tags/11.8.2/includes/save-load-option/save-load-option.php#L197
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/booking/tags/11.8.2/includes/save-load-option/save-load-option.php#L303
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3699185%40booking&new=3699185%40booking
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ab68a6b2-e9b0-4efa-bd01-c6e3e11011db?source=cve
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.