Authentication bypass in LatePoint plugin allows customer takeover
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-287.
Summary
Appointment Booking Plugin (LatePoint) up to and including 5.7.2 has an improper authentication flaw (CWE-287). With the 'Use WordPress users as customers' option enabled, a WordPress user whose login equals a customer's email is linked to that customer without checking the user's email. An attacker with Subscriber-level access can take over another customer's account and read its bookings and calendar data.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-28
Description from the CNA
The Appointment Booking Plugin – LatePoint | Calendar & Scheduling for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass in versions up to, and including, 5.7.2 via the OsCustomerHelper::create_wp_user_for_customer() helper reached from the public process_step_customer() booking step. When the 'Use WordPress users as customers' option is enabled, the helper falls back from email_exists() to username_exists( $customer->email ), which matches any WordPress user whose user_login equals the victim customer's email even when that user's user_email is completely different, and links that WordPress user's ID into the victim's LatePoint customer row (only privileged roles are excluded; Subscriber is allowed). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to take over another customer's LatePoint account — accessing their bookings, service, agent, and calendar data, and having the victim customer's email overwritten with the attacker's on next login — by holding a Subscriber account whose user_login equals the victim's email and submitting an unauthenticated public booking step registration request.
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
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| latepoint | Appointment Booking Plugin – LatePoint | Calendar & Scheduling for WordPress | up to 5.7.2 | — | No fix listed | CNA |
- Appointment Booking Plugin – LatePoint | Calendar & Scheduling for WordPress Vendorlatepoint Affected up to 5.7.2 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
Remediation
The sources list no fixed version for Appointment Booking Plugin (LatePoint).
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-28
Timeline
- 2026-10-14 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-100163
- 2026-10-14 Alias added: GHSA-fwf2-rqrw-2q37
- 2026-10-14 Priority changed: MEDIUM → LOW
- 2026-10-15 CISA SSVC decision points changed
References
Other 7
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2a942d71-7172-4e02-9faa-3a2c1c9e7fbd?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/latepoint/tags/5.7.2/lib/helpers/customer_helper.php#L259
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/latepoint/tags/5.7.2/lib/helpers/customer_helper.php#L274
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/latepoint/tags/5.7.2/lib/helpers/steps_helper.php#L2156
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/latepoint/tags/5.7.2/lib/helpers/steps_helper.php#L2146
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/latepoint/tags/5.7.2/latepoint.php#L1072
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/latepoint/tags/5.7.3/lib/helpers/customer_helper.php
More latepoint vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-86552 Authentication bypass in LatePoint lets attackers take over accounts CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
- 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
Sources
- CVE-2026-100163 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-100163 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-fwf2-rqrw-2q37 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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