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Privilege escalation to administrator in Salon Booking System plugin

Priority LOW 33CWE-269Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
High
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Privilege escalation
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-269.

Summary

The Salon Booking System WordPress plugin from 10.17 before 10.31.11 does not prevent users holding its custom salon staff role from assigning arbitrary capabilities to other accounts when editing a customer. An authenticated attacker with salon staff privileges can escalate any account to administrator and take over the site. The weakness is classified as CWE-269. A public exploit is linked in the references.

Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-28

Description from the CNA

The Salon Booking System WordPress plugin before 10.31.11 does not prevent users holding its custom salon staff role from assigning arbitrary capabilities to other accounts when editing a customer, allowing them to escalate any account to administrator and take over the site.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00249 16th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by the CNA
Fix Fixed Salon Booking System (Unknown): 10.31.11

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

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
UnknownSalon Booking System10.17 to before 10.31.1110.31.11Patch availableCNA
  • Salon Booking System VendorUnknown Affected 10.17 to before 10.31.11 Fixed in 10.31.11 Patch available CNA

Remediation

Update the Salon Booking System plugin to version 10.31.11.

Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-28

  • Fix · CNA Salon Booking System (Unknown) Fixed in 10.31.11

Fixed in the same release

Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.

  • Release ·

    Salon Booking System 10.31.11

    4 records Highest priority Priority LOW 4 LOW

    Other records, highest priority first

    • TI-2026-76034 Stored XSS and SSRF in Salon Booking System WordPress pluginPriority LOW 31
    • TI-2026-76033 Missing authorization in Salon Booking System lets staff demote administratorsPriority LOW 24
    • TI-2026-76035 Salon Booking System discloses hidden coupon codes to subscribersPriority LOW 19

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-18 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-110031
  2. 2026-10-18 Alias added: GHSA-wpj6-8qpm-3rhw

References

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