Improper privilege management in LatePoint – Calendar Booking Plugin for Appointments and…
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Privilege escalation
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-269.
Summary
The LatePoint – Calendar Booking Plugin for Appointments and Events plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in versions up to and including 5.4.1. This is due to a missing authorization check in the execute() method of the connect-customer-to-wp-user ability, which only requires the customer__edit capability granted to the latepoint_agent role by default, without verifying whether the target WordPress user ID belongs to a privileged account. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with the latepoint_agent role to link any LatePoint customer record to an administrator's WordPress account and subsequently reset the administrator's password via the normal customer password-reset flow, resulting in full site takeover.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-6741
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-hh48-8rfg-4422
References
Other 6
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/71e99412-031e-4f4a-9126-dd3a37975246?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/latepoint/tags/5.4.1/lib/abilities/customers/connect-customer-to-wp-user.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/latepoint/tags/5.4.1/lib/models/customer_model.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/latepoint/tags/5.4.1/lib/helpers/roles_helper.php
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/latepoint/
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3514330/latepoint
More latepoint vulnerabilities
- TI-2024-08303 LatePoint <= 5.0.12 - Authentication Bypass CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2024-08274 LatePoint <= 5.0.11 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary User Password Change via SQL Injection CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-62628 Appointment Booking Plugin <= 5.7.0 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution via First/Last Name Field CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
- TI-2024-02298 LatePoint Plugin <= 4.9.9 - Missing Authorization and Sensitive Information Exposure via IDOR CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
- TI-2026-76047 Race condition in LatePoint plugin allows authentication bypass CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
- TI-2026-41538 WordPress LatePoint plugin <= 5.6.3 - SQL Injection vulnerability CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.3
Sources
- CVE-2026-6741 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-6741 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-hh48-8rfg-4422 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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