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CVE-2026-92799: Online Scheduling and Appointment Booking System <= 28.2 - Unauthenticated Authorization Bypass via PHP Type Juggling via 'verification_code' Parameter Type Juggling via json_data
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-09-25 · updated 2026-09-25
- Weakness: CWE-285
Description
The Online Scheduling and Appointment Booking System – Bookly plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authorization Bypass via PHP Type Juggling in all versions up to, and including, 28.2. This is due to the `postValidateCustomer()` function using a loose PHP inequality operator (`!=`) to compare the session-stored one-time verification code against the attacker-supplied `verification_code` parameter — a flaw that is further exposed by the booking AJAX controller registering all its methods as `wp_ajax_nopriv_` handlers and unconditionally overriding `csrfTokenValid()` to return true, leaving the endpoint both unauthenticated and CSRF-unprotected. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to bypass the phone/email ownership verification step and overwrite the name, email, phone, and address fields of any arbitrary existing Bookly customer record, redirecting that customer's booking notifications to attacker-controlled contact details. The bypass is achievable because the `json_data` input channel decodes input via `json_decode()`, which preserves real PHP types and causes the `wp_kses` filter to leave non-string values such as the JSON boolean `true` untouched; submitting `true` as the `verification_code` satisfies the loose comparison against the session's non-zero integer code (generated by `mt_rand(100000, 999999)`), causing `true != <non-zero int>` to evaluate as `false` and the guard to be bypassed.
Affected products
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool/tags/28.2/frontend/modules/booking/Ajax.php#L1447
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool/tags/28.2/frontend/modules/booking/Ajax.php#L15
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool/tags/28.2/frontend/modules/booking/Ajax.php#L785
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool/tags/28.2/frontend/modules/booking/Ajax.php#L903
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool/tags/28.2/lib/UserBookingData.php#L638
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool/tags/28.2/lib/Validator.php#L276
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool/tags/28.2/lib/base/Component.php#L182
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3707284%40bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool&new=3707284%40bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d24fa600-7698-4081-92f5-e11606928886?source=cve
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