Executive Summary

CVE-2025-67953 is a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in the WordPress Booking Activities Plugin versions up to and including 1.16.44. It allows a malicious actor with low privileges or no authentication to escalate their privileges, potentially gaining full control over the affected website. This vulnerability falls under the OWASP Top 10 category A7: Identification and Authentication Failures and has a CVSS severity score of 8.1. The issue is fixed in version 1.16.45 of the plugin. [1]

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Impact Analysis

This vulnerability can allow an attacker with little or no access to escalate their privileges and gain full control over the affected website. This means the attacker could manipulate, steal, or delete data, install malicious code, or disrupt website operations, leading to severe security breaches and potential loss of trust or revenue. [1]

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Detection Guidance

The provided resources do not include specific commands or methods to detect this vulnerability on your network or system. Detection can involve checking the installed version of the Booking Activities WordPress plugin to see if it is version 1.16.44 or earlier, which is vulnerable. However, no explicit detection commands or network indicators are given.

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Mitigation Strategies

Immediate mitigation steps include updating the Booking Activities WordPress plugin to version 1.16.45 or later, which contains the fix for this vulnerability. Additionally, users of the Patchstack security platform can enable a rule that blocks attacks targeting this vulnerability and can enable auto-updates for vulnerable plugins to ensure rapid protection until the update is applied. [1]

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Compliance Impact

The provided resources do not specify how this vulnerability affects compliance with common standards and regulations such as GDPR or HIPAA.

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