Vulnerability in Booking Package
CVE-2026-16986
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: 0.002 (7.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N.
Affected products
- Unknown Booking Package
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- contact@wpscan.com (technical-description, exploit, vdb-entry)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2026-16986?
- CVE-2026-16986 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Booking Package, classified under Improper Access Control. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2026-08-26.
- How severe is CVE-2026-16986?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.