Description
The Appointment Booking Calendar — Simply Schedule Appointments Booking Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.8.5. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.
Published: 2025-03-13
Score: 7.3 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: Arbitrary code execution via unwarranted shortcode processing
Action: Patch immediately
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-6257 The Appointment Booking Calendar — Simply Schedule Appointments Booking Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.8.5. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.
History

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000


Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00163}

epss

{'score': 0.00241}


Thu, 13 Mar 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Thu, 13 Mar 2025 07:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description The Appointment Booking Calendar — Simply Schedule Appointments Booking Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.8.5. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.
Title Appointment Booking Calendar — Simply Schedule Appointments Booking Plugin <= 1.6.8.5 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution
Weaknesses CWE-94
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-08T16:38:22.055Z

Reserved: 2025-02-07T17:04:57.660Z

Link: CVE-2025-1119

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-03-13T20:40:42.241Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2025-03-13T07:15:36.517

Modified: 2026-04-15T00:35:42.020

Link: CVE-2025-1119

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-04-22T18:00:05Z

Weaknesses