The Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar – Amelia (Premium) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in versions 8.0 - 9.6.2. This is due to insufficient validation of the attacker-controlled 'type' parameter in the customer update endpoint, which allows customers to set their role to 'manager' and trigger creation of a WordPress user with the wpamelia-manager role when the 'externalId' parameter is set to 0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to escalate their privileges to administrator by first elevating to the manager role, then creating a provider entity linked to an administrator user ID and overwriting that administrator's password.
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Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:45:00 +0000
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| Description | The Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar – Amelia (Premium) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in versions 8.0 - 9.6.2. This is due to insufficient validation of the attacker-controlled 'type' parameter in the customer update endpoint, which allows customers to set their role to 'manager' and trigger creation of a WordPress user with the wpamelia-manager role when the 'externalId' parameter is set to 0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to escalate their privileges to administrator by first elevating to the manager role, then creating a provider entity linked to an administrator user ID and overwriting that administrator's password. | |
| Title | Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar – Amelia (Premium) 8.0 - 9.6.2 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation to Administrator via 'externalId' | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-269 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Wordfence
Published:
Updated: 2026-09-02T04:26:46.198Z
Reserved: 2026-05-20T01:12:10.006Z
Link: CVE-2026-9055
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-09-02T05:17:10.937
Modified: 2026-09-02T05:17:10.937
Link: CVE-2026-9055
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-09-02T05:30:08Z