The Online Scheduling and Appointment Booking System – Bookly plugin for WordPress is vulnerable...
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
The Online Scheduling and Appointment Booking System – Bookly plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authorization Bypass via PHP Type Juggling in all versions up to, and including, 28.2. This is due to the postValidateCustomer() function using a loose PHP inequality operator (!=) to compare the session-stored one-time verification code against the attacker-supplied verification_code parameter — a flaw that is further exposed by the booking AJAX controller registering all its methods as wp_ajax_nopriv_ handlers and unconditionally overriding csrfTokenValid() to return true, leaving the endpoint both unauthenticated and CSRF-unprotected. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to bypass the phone/email ownership verification step and overwrite the name, email, phone, and address fields of any arbitrary existing Bookly customer record, redirecting that customer's booking notifications to attacker-controlled contact details. The bypass is achievable because the json_data input channel decodes input via json_decode(), which preserves real PHP types and causes the wp_kses filter to leave non-string values such as the JSON boolean true untouched; submitting true as the verification_code satisfies the loose comparison against the session's non-zero integer code (generated by mt_rand(100000, 999999)), causing true != <non-zero int> to evaluate as false and the guard to be bypassed.
🔗 References (11)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-92799
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool/tags/28.2/frontend/modules/booking/Ajax.php#L1447
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool/tags/28.2/frontend/modules/booking/Ajax.php#L15
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool/tags/28.2/frontend/modules/booking/Ajax.php#L785
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool/tags/28.2/frontend/modules/booking/Ajax.php#L903
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool/tags/28.2/lib/UserBookingData.php#L638
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool/tags/28.2/lib/Validator.php#L276
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool/tags/28.2/lib/base/Component.php#L182
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3707284%40bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool&new=3707284%40bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d24fa600-7698-4081-92f5-e11606928886?source=cve
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jv6x-x2jh-jfmr