CVE-2026-5465

Summary

The Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar – Amelia plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.3. This is due to the UpdateProviderCommandHandler failing to validate changes to the externalId field when a Provider (Employee) user updates their own profile. The externalId maps directly to a WordPress user ID and is passed to wp_set_password() and wp_update_user() without authorization checks. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Provider-level (Employee) access and above, to take over any WordPress account — including Administrator — by injecting an arbitrary externalId value when updating their own provider profile.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-639: CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical Impact: total

References

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a4204099-1065-4167-8b42-3da25945236c?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ameliabooking/tags/2.1.3/src/Application/Controller/User/Provider/UpdateProviderController.php#L30
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ameliabooking/tags/2.1.3/src/Application/Commands/User/Provider/UpdateProviderCommandHandler.php#L146
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ameliabooking/tags/2.1.3/src/Application/Commands/User/Provider/UpdateProviderCommandHandler.php#L219
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ameliabooking/tags/2.1.3/src/Application/Commands/User/Provider/UpdateProviderCommandHandler.php#L239
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3499608/ameliabooking/trunk/src/Application/Commands/User/Provider/UpdateProviderCommandHandler.php

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