CVE-2023-2299Online Booking & Scheduling Calendar for WordPress by vcita <= 4.4.2 - Missing Authorization on REST-API
- 5.3MediumCVSS base score
- 0.64%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 49% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The Online Booking & Scheduling Calendar for WordPress by vcita plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized medication of data via the /wp-json/vcita-wordpress/v1/actions/auth REST-API endpoint in versions up to, and including, 4.4.2 due to a missing capability check on the processAction function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers modify the plugin's settings.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 38 days later
· 38 days later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.64% · top 49% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Affected products
vcita · Online Booking & Scheduling Calendar for WordPress by vcita
- affected ≤ 4.4.2
References
References4
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4855627a-de56-49ee-b0b0-01b9735d8557?source=cve (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/meeting-scheduler-by-vcita/trunk/vcita-api-functions.php (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://blog.jonh.eu/blog/security-vulnerabilities-in-wordpress-plugins-by-vcita (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3104980/meeting-scheduler-by-vcita/trunk/vcita-api-functions.php (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-33805 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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