PT-2022-25362 · WordPress · Appointment Hour Booking

Andreas Krüger + 1 · Published 2022-11-29 · Updated 2023-07-10 · CVE-2022-4036

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Appointment Hour Booking plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 1.3.72

Description The issue is related to a CAPTCHA bypass due to the use of an insufficiently strong hashing algorithm on the CAPTCHA secret. This secret is also displayed to the user via a cookie.

Recommendations For versions up to, and including, 1.3.72, update to a version that uses a sufficiently strong hashing algorithm for the CAPTCHA secret. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the CAPTCHA functionality until a patch is available.

Fix

Inadequate Encryption Strength

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-804

CWE-326

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-4036

Affected Products

Appointment Hour Booking

References · 7

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-4036 · Vendor Advisory
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2803896%40appointment-hour-booking&new=2803896%40appointment-hour-booking&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-4036 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/38919 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/38716 · Telegram Post
• https://wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories-continued/#CVE-2022-4036 · Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f62d28bd-fa33-4f0b-a116-5aacc05bfa3a?source=cve · Note