CVE-2026-2520
Description
The Online Scheduling and Appointment Booking System – Bookly plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'updateAddon' function in all versions up to, and including, 27.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update any plugin with a main file of 'main.php' to its latest version.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
Propose a mitigation on Community Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool/trunk/lib/PluginsUpdater.php#L10
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool/trunk/lib/PluginsUpdater.php#L105
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3504922/
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b7edc69b-363d-49df-b82b-a9ad4fe9224a?source=cve
CWEs
CWE-862
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.