Medium severity · published Aug 15, 2026
CVE-2026-8840
Booking calendar, Appointment Booking System <= 3.2.36 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Modification via wpdevart_payment AJAX Action
5.3
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The Booking calendar, Appointment Booking System plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.36. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to mark arbitrary reservations as paid or completed, cancel legitimate payments, auto-approve reservations, and trigger transactional booking emails by writing attacker-supplied payment status and transaction data directly into the payments table. The auto-approval of reservations is only triggered when the 'enable_psuccess_approval' site option is enabled, but payment status manipulation and email dispatch are exploitable regardless of that setting.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 46% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BC
Booking calendar, Appointment Booking System · wpdevart
through 3.2.36 · source: vendor
Affected product
BC
Booking calendar, Appointment Booking System
wpdevart
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-8840
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-8840
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/booking-calendar/tags/3.2.35/admin/controllers/Payment.php#L16
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/booking-calendar/tags/3.2.35/admin/controllers/Payment.php#L26
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/booking-calendar/tags/3.2.35/booking_calendar.php#L131
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/booking-calendar/tags/3.2.35/booking_calendar.php#L578
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/booking-calendar/tags/3.2.36/admin/controllers/Payment.php#L16
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/booking-calendar/tags/3.2.36/admin/controllers/Payment.php#L26
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