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.
History

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:15:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Ameliabooking
Ameliabooking booking For Appointments And Events Calendar
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress
Vendors & Products Ameliabooking
Ameliabooking booking For Appointments And Events Calendar
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:30:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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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
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2026-09-02T04:26:46.198Z

Updated: 2026-09-02T12:57:12.354Z

Reserved: 2026-05-20T01:12:10.006Z

Link: CVE-2026-9055

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-02T12:56:10.551Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-09-02T05:17:10.937

Modified: 2026-09-02T13:55:27.963

Link: CVE-2026-9055

cve-icon Redhat

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