The Online Scheduling and Appointment Booking System – Bookly plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based SQL Injection via the 'staff_ids' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 27.5 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. Exploitation requires a two-request chain: an attacker first calls the unauthenticated bookly_get_form_id action to seed a booking session carrying malicious staff_ids values, then triggers bookly_render_time to cause the tainted array to reach the vulnerable query; CSRF/nonce validation is absent on both endpoints, meaning this chain can be initiated cross-site.
Online Scheduling and Appointment Booking System <= 27.5 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection
Problem type
Affected products
ladela
<= 27.5 - AFFECTED
References
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5c55abc7-b09d-4fea-bc2f-b903d3da119f?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool/tags/27.5/lib/slots/Finder.php#L494
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool/tags/27.5/lib/ChainItem.php#L65
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool/tags/27.5/lib/ChainItem.php#L172
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool/tags/27.5/frontend/modules/booking/Ajax.php#L15
GitHub Security Advisories
GHSA-fw4m-pvcf-9q9c
The Online Scheduling and Appointment Booking System – Bookly plugin for WordPress is vulnerable...
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fw4m-pvcf-9q9cThe Online Scheduling and Appointment Booking System – Bookly plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based SQL Injection via the 'staff_ids' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 27.5 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. Exploitation requires a two-request chain: an attacker first calls the unauthenticated bookly_get_form_id action to seed a booking session carrying malicious staff_ids values, then triggers bookly_render_time to cause the tainted array to reach the vulnerable query; CSRF/nonce validation is absent on both endpoints, meaning this chain can be initiated cross-site.
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-14516
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool/tags/27.5/frontend/modules/booking/Ajax.php#L15
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool/tags/27.5/lib/ChainItem.php#L172
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool/tags/27.5/lib/ChainItem.php#L65
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bookly-responsive-appointment-booking-tool/tags/27.5/lib/slots/Finder.php#L494
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5c55abc7-b09d-4fea-bc2f-b903d3da119f?source=cve
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fw4m-pvcf-9q9c
JSON source
https://cveawg.mitre.org/api/cve/CVE-2026-14516Click to expand
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