Critical severity · published Sep 2, 2026
CVE-2026-9055
Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar – Amelia (Premium) 8.0 - 9.6.2 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation to Administrator via 'externalId'
9.8
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar – Amelia (Premium) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in versions 8.0 - 9.6.2. This is due to insufficient validation of the attacker-controlled 'type' parameter in the customer update endpoint, which allows customers to set their role to 'manager' and trigger creation of a WordPress user with the wpamelia-manager role when the 'externalId' parameter is set to 0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to escalate their privileges to administrator by first elevating to the manager role, then creating a provider entity linked to an administrator user ID and overwriting that administrator's password.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 44% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BF
Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar – Amelia · melograno
8.0 through 9.6.2 · source: vendor
Affected product
BF
Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar – Amelia
melograno
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-9055
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-9055
wpamelia.com
https://wpamelia.com/documentation/changelog/
www.wordfence.com
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0c2266b8-cc23-46de-bc80-09e3d6294854?source=cve
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