Is Simply Schedule Appointments safe? Known vulnerabilities and latest version

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in NSquared Simply Schedule Appointments simply-schedule-appointments allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Simply Schedule Appointments: from n/a through 1.6.12.35.

The Simply Schedule Appointments plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'status' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.12.35 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The malicious payload is stored unconditionally because debug logging is enabled by default, and the debug-log viewer is accessible to anyone holding the site-wide Support PIN (an HMAC-MD5 of AUTH_SALT displayed in wp-admin), meaning the injected script will execute against the administrator's session during ordinary support or troubleshooting workflows.

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability in NSquared Simply Schedule Appointments simply-schedule-appointments allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Simply Schedule Appointments: from n/a through 1.6.12.35.

The Appointment Booking Calendar — Simply Schedule Appointments Booking Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.11.11. This is due to the appointment update REST API endpoint not restricting which fields can be modified by token-authenticated customers. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify admin-controlled fields on that appointment, including faking payment confirmation, reassigning the appointment to another user, and changing the service type.

The Simply Schedule Appointments plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.12.31 via the 'complete_group' parameter due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to disclose every co-booker's private per-appointment id_token (exposed as public_token) alongside their PII (name and email address), then use each leaked token to read, overwrite arbitrary appointment meta on, or cancel the co-booker's appointment via the same REST controller. Exploitation requires the attacker to possess a valid id_token for any single appointment within the targeted group booking.

The Simply Schedule Appointments plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.12.32 via the 'recursive' parameter. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract customer PII — including names, email addresses, phone numbers, and custom form field data — stored in appointment records, as well as per-appointment public_token values. The leaked per-appointment public_token values also enable unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary appointments via the DELETE /wp-json/ssa/v1/appointments/{id} endpoint, which accepts the token as sole authorization.

Unauthenticated Insecure Direct Object References (IDOR) in Simply Schedule Appointments <= 1.6.12.31 versions.

Unauthenticated Broken Access Control in Simply Schedule Appointments <= 1.6.12.29 versions.

The Simply Schedule Appointments plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local File Inclusion in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.12.27 via the 'ssa_locale' parameter parameter. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to include and execute arbitrary .php files on the server, allowing the execution of any PHP code in those files. This can be used to bypass access controls, obtain sensitive data, or achieve code execution in cases where .php file types can be uploaded and included. Notably, exploitation does not require authentication in practice, as the locale filter is installed unconditionally on every request during plugins_loaded and the callback performs no nonce or capability check before returning the raw GET parameter value.

Unauthenticated Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in Simply Schedule Appointments <= 1.6.12.23 versions.

The Appointment Booking Calendar — Simply Schedule Appointments Booking Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.12.10 via the ssa_past_appointments due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to access appointment records belonging to arbitrary users and harvest the per-appointment ownership tokens (32-character hashes) embedded in the rendered HTML, which can then be used without any authentication to read or modify those appointments including full customer PII such as name, email, phone number, and private notes. The /wp-json/ssa/v1/render-shortcode REST endpoint is registered unconditionally on rest_api_init regardless of whether the Divi theme is installed, and its permission callback only requires current_user_can('edit_posts'), meaning any Contributor-level account is sufficient to trigger this entire exploit chain.

The Simply Schedule Appointments WordPress plugin before 1.6.12.17 does not restrict the user records returned by some of its REST endpoints to those the requester is entitled to see, allowing users with a low-privileged staff role to disclose the names and email addresses of arbitrary registered users.

Unauthenticated Cross Site Scripting (XSS) in Simply Schedule Appointments <= 1.6.12.10 versions.

Unauthenticated SQL Injection in Simply Schedule Appointments <= 1.6.12.10 versions.

The Simply Schedule Appointments WordPress plugin before 1.6.12.11 does not perform a capability check on an administrative appointment-listing shortcode, and its per-user result scoping fails open for non-staff users, allowing users with the Contributor role and above to disclose all customers' appointment records, including names, email addresses, phone numbers and notes, across the whole site.

The Simply Schedule Appointments WordPress plugin before 1.6.12.6 does not correctly restrict a bulk appointment operation to the requester's own records, allowing unauthenticated users to retrieve the personal data of all appointments across the site and, on premium editions, to permanently delete them.

Simply Schedule Appointments is vulnerable to unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting in all versions up to and including 1.6.12.2. The root cause is a sanitization-ordering defect: the rendered notification content is decoded back into live HTML after it has already passed through the Simply Schedule Appointments WordPress plugin before 1.6.12.4's wp_kses_post() filter, so a double-encoded payload survives intake and is reintroduced as an executable element at render time.

Missing Authorization vulnerability in NSquared Simply Schedule Appointments simply-schedule-appointments allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Simply Schedule Appointments: from n/a through 1.6.11.11.

Missing Authorization vulnerability in NSquared Simply Schedule Appointments simply-schedule-appointments allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Simply Schedule Appointments: from n/a through <= 1.6.12.4.

Unauthenticated Cross Site Scripting (XSS) in Simply Schedule Appointments <= 1.6.12.2 versions.

Unauthenticated Sensitive Data Exposure in Simply Schedule Appointments < 1.6.11.2 versions.

Unauthenticated SQL Injection in Simply Schedule Appointments <= 1.6.9.27 versions.

Unauthenticated Cross Site Scripting (XSS) in Simply Schedule Appointments <= 1.6.10.6 versions.

The Appointment Booking Calendar — Simply Schedule Appointments Booking Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.11.8 due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action via the bulk appointments REST API endpoint. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify arbitrary appointment records including customer PII, payment status, and meeting URL fields, and to expose full customer PII from existing appointment records via the bulk endpoint response. The public nonce is a static, user-independent value present in the HTML source of any page hosting the [ssa_booking] shortcode, meaning any visitor who has viewed such a page can obtain it and target any appointment in the system without authentication.

The Appointment Booking Calendar — Simply Schedule Appointments Booking Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based blind SQL Injection via the 'append_where_sql' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.11.8 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database. The /appointments/bulk REST endpoint is reachable by unauthenticated attackers because its permission check accepts a public nonce that is embedded in the booking widget's frontend JavaScript (ssa.api.public_nonce) and visible to all site visitors; exploitation requires issuing the request as a PUT with an application/x-www-form-urlencoded body so that PHP's superglobals are not populated and the blocklist check silently passes.

The Appointment Booking Calendar — Simply Schedule Appointments Booking Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to denial of service in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.11.5. This is due to a publicly accessible REST API endpoint (/wp-json/ssa/v1/async) that calls PHP's sleep() function on a user-supplied delay parameter without any rate limiting. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to exhaust PHP worker processes, denying access to the site to legitimate users.

The Appointment Booking Calendar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in versions up to and including 1.6.10.6. This is due to a flawed authorization logic in the nonce_permissions_check() method combined with the public exposure of a site-wide reusable nonce. The plugin exposes a public_nonce value through the /wp-json/ssa/v1/embed-inner endpoint, which is accessible to unauthenticated users. The appointment deletion endpoint at /wp-json/ssa/v1/appointments/{id}/delete and /wp-json/ssa/v1/appointments/bulk use a permission check that accepts requests containing both an X-WP-Nonce header (with any arbitrary value) and an X-PUBLIC-Nonce header (with the valid public nonce). When the X-WP-Nonce validation fails, the function falls back to validating the X-PUBLIC-Nonce without properly rejecting the request. Since the public_nonce is exposed to all unauthenticated visitors and is site-wide (not user-specific or appointment-specific), attackers can obtain it and use it to view details of arbitrary appointments, including the public_edit_url, or delete arbitrary appointments by ID. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to view, delete or modify any appointment in the system, disclosing sensitive appointment data, causing service disruption, and loss of booking records.

Missing Authorization vulnerability in NSquared Simply Schedule Appointments simply-schedule-appointments allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Simply Schedule Appointments: from n/a through <= 1.6.10.2.

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') vulnerability in NSquared Simply Schedule Appointments simply-schedule-appointments allows Blind SQL Injection.This issue affects Simply Schedule Appointments: from n/a through <= 1.6.9.27.

The Appointment Booking Calendar — Simply Schedule Appointments Booking Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'fields' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.10.0 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database, including usernames, email addresses, and password hashes.