Privilege escalation in Roxnor Rox Appointment Booking – Event, Calendar & Scheduling
CVE-2026-104012
The Rox Appointment Booking – Appointment Booking Scheduling Solution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via Mass Assignment in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.1 This is due to the public `/rox-appointment-booking/v1/public/booking` REST endpoint performing mass-assignment of the raw request body into a new customer row while `CustomerModel::$fillable` includes the internal `wp_user_id` column, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to persist an arbitrary WordPress user ID alongside an attacker-controlled email address with no authorization check. When an administrator subsequently opens the poisoned customer record and clicks Update Customer, `SaveCustomer::handleRequest()` passes the stored `wp_user_id` and attacker-supplied email to `wp_update_user()` — succeeding because `LinkedAccount::canChange()` unconditionally returns true when the acting user holds the `edit_users` capability — thereby overwriting the targeted administrator's email address and enabling full account takeover via a standard WordPress password-reset request. Successful exploitation requires an administrator to open and save the poisoned record, and the attacker must know or guess a valid administrator user ID (such as the default user ID 1).
Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation
Published .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.003 (20.6th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 21st percentile — 20.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
The 30-day trend appears once there are two daily scores.
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2a32f428-fa6e-469b-b004-e80a1…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/rox-appointment-booking/tags/1.3.0/src/Modul…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/rox-appointment-booking/tags/1.3.0/src/Modul…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/rox-appointment-booking/tags/1.3.0/src/Modul…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/rox-appointment-booking/tags/1.3.0/src/Modul…
- downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/rox-appointment-booking.1.3.2.zip
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2026-104012?
- CVE-2026-104012 is a high-severity vulnerability in Roxnor Rox Appointment Booking – Event, Calendar & Scheduling, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2026-10-31.
- How severe is CVE-2026-104012?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.