CVE-2026-9055
Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar – Amelia (Premium) 8.0 - 9.6.2 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation to Administrator via 'externalId'
- Published
- Sep 2, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 2, 2026
- Assigning CNA
- Wordfence
- Evidence observed
- Sep 2, 2026
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLow · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 21.9%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
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.
Sources
1- CVE-2026-9055Informational
Defensive analysis of CVE-2026-9055, an unauthenticated privilege escalation in Amelia WordPress booking plugin. Provides root cause breakdown, detection guidance, IoCs, and mitigation checklist. No exploit code.
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