Privilege Escalation in LatePoint Calendar Booking Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2026-1566

8.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
Latepoint – Calendar Booking Plugin For Appointments And Events
Vendor
CVE Published:
2 March 2026

What is CVE-2026-1566?

The LatePoint – Calendar Booking Plugin for Appointments and Events is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability that allows users with the LatePoint Agent role to manipulate the 'wordpress_user_id' field while creating new customers. This flaw enables authenticated attackers with Agent-level access or higher to link a new customer account to any arbitrary user ID, potentially including those of administrators. As a result, these attackers can reset passwords and gain elevated privileges, posing a significant security risk.

Affected Version(s)

LatePoint – Calendar Booking Plugin for Appointments and Events 0 <= 5.2.7

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3463945/

CVSS V3.1

Score:
8.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Nguyen Ba Hung
.