CVE-2025-14352
📋 TL;DR
The Awesome Hotel Booking WordPress plugin has an authorization bypass vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to modify booking records. Attackers can exploit this by obtaining a nonce from the public booking form and using it to make unauthorized changes. All WordPress sites using this plugin version 1.0 or earlier are affected.
💻 Affected Systems
- Awesome Hotel Booking 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).
🔒 Custom verification scripts are available for registered users. Sign up free to download automated test scripts.
- 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
Attackers could modify all booking records, causing operational disruption, financial loss from altered reservations, and potential data integrity issues affecting customer trust.
Likely Case
Attackers will modify random booking records to cause confusion, disrupt hotel operations, or potentially alter reservation details for malicious purposes.
If Mitigated
With proper authorization checks, only authenticated users with appropriate permissions could modify booking records, limiting impact to authorized personnel actions.
🎯 Exploit Status
Exploitation requires obtaining a valid nonce from the public booking form, which is trivial for attackers.
🛠️ Fix & Mitigation
✅ Official Fix
Patch Version: Not available
Vendor Advisory: Not available
Restart Required: No
Instructions:
1. Check WordPress plugin repository for updated version
2. If no update available, disable or remove the plugin
3. Monitor vendor for security patch release
🔧 Temporary Workarounds
Disable Plugin
allTemporarily disable the Awesome Hotel Booking plugin until a security patch is available
Navigate to WordPress admin panel > Plugins > Installed Plugins > Deactivate Awesome Hotel Booking
Remove Plugin
allCompletely remove the vulnerable plugin from your WordPress installation
Navigate to WordPress admin panel > Plugins > Installed Plugins > Delete Awesome Hotel Booking
🧯 If You Can't Patch
- Implement web application firewall (WAF) rules to block requests to the vulnerable room-single.php endpoint
- Monitor booking system logs for unauthorized modification attempts and implement alerting
🔍 How to Verify
Check if Vulnerable:
Check WordPress admin panel > Plugins > Installed Plugins for Awesome Hotel Booking version 1.0 or earlierCheck Version:
wp plugin list --name='awesome-hotel-booking' --field=versionVerify Fix Applied:
Verify plugin is either removed, disabled, or updated to a version later than 1.0📡 Detection & Monitoring
Log Indicators:
- Unusual POST requests to room-single.php endpoint from unauthenticated users
- Multiple booking modifications from single IP addresses
Network Indicators:
- HTTP requests to /wp-content/plugins/awesome-hotel-booking/admin/admin-shortcodes/inc/room-single.php with nonce parameters
SIEM Query:
source="web_server" AND uri="*room-single.php*" AND (user="-" OR user="anonymous") AND method="POST"🔗 References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/awesome-hotel-booking/tags/1.0/admin/admin-shortcodes/inc/room-single.php#L67
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/awesome-hotel-booking/trunk/admin/admin-shortcodes/inc/room-single.php#L67
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4fe0a08e-eee2-4d48-bb38-dd58bff79118?source=cve
