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Plain-English summary
CVE-2026-1566 affects the LatePoint WordPress booking plugin. A user with LatePoint Agent access or higher may be able to take over higher-privileged WordPress accounts, including administrators, through customer account linking and password reset behavior. This is serious for sites that allow staff, contractors, or compromised accounts to access LatePoint.
Executive priority
Treat as high priority for affected booking sites because compromise of one Agent account could become administrator takeover. Prioritize internet-facing revenue, scheduling, healthcare, education, or service portals using LatePoint.
Technical view
LatePoint up to and including 5.2.7 allows Agent-level users creating customers to set the wordpress_user_id field. By linking a customer to an arbitrary WordPress user ID, including an administrator, the attacker can trigger password reset flows and escalate privileges. The issue is classified as CWE-269 with CVSS 8.8.
Likely exposure
Exposure is limited to WordPress sites running LatePoint – Calendar Booking Plugin for Appointments and Events versions up to 5.2.7, where an attacker has Agent-level or higher authenticated access. Public sources do not indicate unauthenticated exploitation.
Exploitation context
The vulnerability requires valid LatePoint Agent-level access or higher. The provided sources do not show CISA KEV listing or confirmed active exploitation. Risk increases if Agent accounts are broadly assigned, shared, weakly protected, or accessible to third parties.
Researcher notes
The public description identifies a privilege escalation through controllable wordpress_user_id during customer creation. The bundle references Wordfence and WordPress Trac changeset 3463945, but does not provide full remediation details in the supplied text. Avoid assuming exploitation in the wild absent additional evidence.
Mitigation direction
- Identify all WordPress sites using LatePoint.
- Check whether LatePoint is version 5.2.7 or earlier.
- Apply the vendor or WordPress plugin update addressing this issue.
- Restrict LatePoint Agent roles to trusted users only.
- Reset passwords for suspicious Agent or administrator accounts.
- Monitor vendor guidance for the exact fixed release and upgrade instructions.
Validation and detection
- Confirm installed LatePoint version in WordPress admin or asset inventory.
- Review users assigned LatePoint Agent or higher roles.
- Audit recent customer records for unexpected wordpress_user_id links.
- Review administrator password reset and login activity.
- Verify the referenced WordPress plugin changeset is present after updating.
Public sources used
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- High
- CVSS
- 8.8 (3.1)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H2.85.9Primary CVE scoreVulnerability scoring details
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8.8HighVector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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