Description
The Bookly WordPress plugin before 28.3 does not properly verify a customer's identity before updating their stored details, allowing unauthenticated attackers who know a customer's primary identifier to overwrite that customer's stored personal information such as name, email and address.
Published: 2026-09-25
Score: 5.3 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: Unauthenticated PII Modification
Action: Patch Immediately
AI Analysis

Impact

The Bookly WordPress plugin, in versions prior to 28.3, does not properly verify a customer's identity before applying updates to their stored personal information. As a result, an attacker who knows a customer’s primary identifier can overwrite that customer’s name, email, and address. This lack of authentication and authorization control permits unauthorized tampering with sensitive data, potentially enabling privacy violations, fraudulent account modifications, and other harms.

Affected Systems

All installations of the Bookly WordPress plugin dated before version 28.3 are affected. Site owners should inspect their current plugin version and apply the fix if the plugin is older than 28.3.

Risk and Exploitability

The CVSS score of 5.3 indicates a moderate level of severity. Exploitation is straightforward: an unauthenticated request to the Bookly update endpoint with a known customer identifier allows the attacker to modify PII. The EPSS score of < 1% indicates a very low probability of exploitation, and the vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog, but the lack of authentication combined with a known identifier gives the attacker a low barrier to attempt this modification.

Generated by OpenCVE AI on September 26, 2026 at 02:38 UTC.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record.

OpenCVE Recommended Actions

  • Update the Bookly plugin to version 28.3 or later.
  • If an upgrade cannot be applied immediately, configure your web server or a web application firewall to block unauthenticated requests to the Bookly customer update endpoint, permitting only authenticated users.
  • Review and audit stored customer data for unexpected changes and monitor logs for anomalous update activity.

Generated by OpenCVE AI on September 26, 2026 at 02:38 UTC.

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History

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 01:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-285

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-639
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Bookly
Bookly bookly
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress
Vendors & Products Bookly
Bookly bookly
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-285

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description The Bookly WordPress plugin before 28.3 does not properly verify a customer's identity before updating their stored details, allowing unauthenticated attackers who know a customer's primary identifier to overwrite that customer's stored personal information such as name, email and address.
Title Bookly < 28.3 - Unauthenticated Customer PII Update via Verification Bypass
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N'}


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Bookly Bookly
Wordpress Wordpress
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-25T12:40:03.486Z

Reserved: 2026-09-08T14:41:49.614Z

Link: CVE-2026-86837

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-25T12:36:29.460Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-09-25T09:17:06.210

Modified: 2026-09-25T13:25:16.167

Link: CVE-2026-86837

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-26T02:45:02Z

Weaknesses
  • CWE-639

    Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key