The Online Scheduling and Appointment Booking System – Bookly plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 28.4 via the 'id, wp_user_id' parameter due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to overwrite the WordPress account binding of any Bookly staff record, including those owned by administrators, effectively hijacking a higher-privileged staff member's account association and escalating privileges. Exploitation requires the attacking user to be linked to at least one Bookly staff record, which occurs by default whenever an admin enables the bookly_gen_allow_staff_edit_profile option (active on fresh installs) and links a WordPress user to a staff entry.
CVE-2026-104898
This medium-severity CVE scores 6.8 under a secondary CVSS source (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit-prediction score not yet available (the EPSS model rescores nightly; freshly-published CVEs typically appear within 48 hours). GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.
- CVSS v3
- 6.8
- EG Score
- 6.8MEDIUMlow confidence
- EG Risk
- 35EG Risk 35/100CISA SSVC
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity68% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability30% × 15%CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Track or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix. - EPSS PROB
- 0.3%
- EPSS %ILE
- 15th
- KEV
- Not listed
CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.
Exploitation none (no KEV listing, exploit record or EPSS ≥ 50%) · Automatable unknown (not published for this CVE) · Technical impact partial (CVSS below 9.0). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table
Published
October 10, 2026
Last Modified
October 10, 2026
References (8)
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool/tags/28.4/backend/components/dialogs/staff/edit/Ajax.php#L111
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool/tags/28.4/backend/components/dialogs/staff/edit/Ajax.php#L364
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool/tags/28.4/backend/components/dialogs/staff/edit/Ajax.php#L93
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool/tags/28.4/lib/base/Entity.php#L172
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool/tags/28.4/lib/base/Entity.php#L247
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool/tags/28.4/lib/base/Request.php#L49
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3730881%40bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool%2Ftags%2F28.5&old=3722721%40bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool%2Ftags%2F28.4
- security@wordfencehttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1c3cfaa5-00e3-41b6-8f38-cebdd5dec180?source=cve
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-104898(1)
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Weakness Classification(1)
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Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 4× in last 7d / 4× in last 30d)
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- 2026-10-10 19:59 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-10-10 04:20 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-10 03:45 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-10 03:45 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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