CVE-2026-9055
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.
Published:Sep 2, 2026
Last Modified:Sep 3, 2026
EPS:Sep 2, 2026
EPSS Score:0.00291
CVSS Score:9.8
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Ameliabooking
Product
Booking For Appointments And Events Calendar
Ameliabooking
Booking For Appointments And Events Calendar
Vendor
Wordpress
Product
Wordpress
Wordpress
Wordpress
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Related CVEs
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
