CVE-2026-16986
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CVE-2026-16986 is a medium-severity vulnerability rated 5.3/10 on the CVSS scale. The Booking Package WordPress plugin before 1.7.25 does not validate the payment amount server-side against the stored service price, deriving the expected charge from attacker-supplied request values instead, so an unauthenticated attacker can pay an arbitrary fraction of a service's real price.. EPSS estimates a 0.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Description
The Booking Package WordPress plugin before 1.7.25 does not validate the payment amount server-side against the stored service price, deriving the expected charge from attacker-supplied request values instead, so an unauthenticated attacker can pay an arbitrary fraction of a service's real price.
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- Status
- Deferred
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