CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Called exploited 1 days before disclosure.
Measured from the CVE publication date to the earliest of 1 KEV catalogue that list it.
The life of this vulnerability
- CVE published
- First KEV listing1d
- Last sightingsame day
Gaps are compressed to equal steps. The elapsed time is printed under each.
Which catalogues call it exploited
- CISA KEVUS federaldoes not list it
- EUVDENISA, European Uniondoes not list it
- VulnCheck KEVcommercial researchlisted Sep 1, 2026
- CIRCLaggregator, mirrors the abovedoes not list it
This rests on a single catalogue. No second catalogue corroborates the claim that it is being exploited. CIRCL is an aggregator and is not counted.
Public exploitation evidence
- reported exploitationpatchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/ameliabooking/vulne
1 public report collected from VulnCheck and CIRCL, first on Sep 1, 2026. Each links to its original source. We have not verified them.
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.