CVE-2025-14065
📋 TL;DR
The Simple Bike Rental WordPress plugin has an authorization vulnerability that allows authenticated users with Subscriber-level access or higher to retrieve all booking records containing customers' personally identifiable information (PII). This affects all versions up to and including 1.0.6. Attackers can access names, email addresses, and phone numbers without proper authorization.
💻 Affected Systems
- Simple Bike Rental WordPress Plugin
⚠️ Manual Verification Required
This CVE does not have specific version information in our database, so automatic vulnerability detection cannot determine if your system is affected.
Why? The CVE database entry doesn't specify which versions are vulnerable (no version ranges provided by the vendor/NVD).
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- Review the CVE details at NVD
- Check vendor security advisories for your specific version
- Test if the vulnerability is exploitable in your environment
- Consider updating to the latest version as a precaution
⚠️ Risk & Real-World Impact
Worst Case
Mass data breach exposing all customer PII, leading to identity theft, phishing campaigns, regulatory fines, and reputational damage.
Likely Case
Unauthorized access to customer booking data by low-privileged users or compromised accounts, resulting in PII exposure.
If Mitigated
Limited impact with proper access controls, monitoring, and network segmentation preventing data exfiltration.
🎯 Exploit Status
Exploitation requires authenticated access but is straightforward via AJAX requests. No special tools needed.
🛠️ Fix & Mitigation
✅ Official Fix
Patch Version: 1.0.7 or later
Vendor Advisory: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3414692/simple-bike-rental/
Restart Required: No
Instructions:
1. Log into WordPress admin panel. 2. Navigate to Plugins > Installed Plugins. 3. Find Simple Bike Rental plugin. 4. Click 'Update Now' if update available. 5. If no update appears, manually download version 1.0.7+ from WordPress repository and replace plugin files.
🔧 Temporary Workarounds
Disable Plugin
allTemporarily disable the vulnerable plugin until patched.
wp plugin deactivate simple-bike-rental
Restrict AJAX Access
linuxAdd capability check to block unauthorized AJAX requests via .htaccess or web server configuration.
# Add to .htaccess: <Files "ajax.php"> Require valid-user </Files>
🧯 If You Can't Patch
- Implement network segmentation to isolate WordPress installation from sensitive data stores.
- Enable detailed logging of AJAX requests and monitor for unauthorized access patterns.
🔍 How to Verify
Check if Vulnerable:
Check plugin version in WordPress admin under Plugins > Installed Plugins. If version is 1.0.6 or lower, system is vulnerable.Check Version:
wp plugin get simple-bike-rental --field=versionVerify Fix Applied:
Verify plugin version is 1.0.7 or higher. Test with low-privileged user account that AJAX endpoint no longer returns booking data.📡 Detection & Monitoring
Log Indicators:
- Unusual AJAX requests to /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php with action=simpbire_carica_prenotazioni from low-privileged users
- Multiple booking data retrieval requests from single user session
Network Indicators:
- POST requests to admin-ajax.php with specific vulnerable action parameter
SIEM Query:
source="wordpress.log" AND "admin-ajax.php" AND "simpbire_carica_prenotazioni" AND user_role="subscriber"🔗 References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-bike-rental/tags/1.0.5/includes/ajax.php#L137
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-bike-rental/trunk/includes/ajax.php#L137
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3414692/simple-bike-rental/
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/06f4e758-3328-4ac1-956a-cfadddd12e53?source=cve
