CVE-2022-4036
Appointment Hour Booking <= 1.3.72 - CAPTCHA Bypass
The Appointment Hour Booking plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to CAPTCHA bypass in versions up to, and including, 1.3.72. This is due to the use of insufficiently strong hashing algorithm on the CAPTCHA secret that is also displayed to the user via a cookie.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
5.3
Appointment Hour Booking <= 1.3.72 - CAPTCHA Bypass
The Appointment Hour Booking plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to CAPTCHA bypass in versions up to, and including, 1.3.72. This is due to the use of insufficiently strong hashing algorithm on the CAPTCHA secret that is also displayed to the user via a cookie.
- Record
CVE-2022-4036- CVSS 3.1
- 5.3 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-804
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2022-51415
5.3
The Appointment Hour Booking plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to CAPTCHA bypass in versions up to, and including, 1.3.72. This is due to the use of insufficiently strong hashing algorithm on the CAPTCHA secret that is also displayed to the user via a cookie.
- Record
EUVD-2022-51415- CVSS 3.1
- 5.3 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-5cwm-9hm2-r3cf
5.3
The Appointment Hour Booking plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to CAPTCHA bypass in versions up...
The Appointment Hour Booking plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to CAPTCHA bypass in versions up to, and including, 1.3.72. This is due to the use of insufficiently strong hashing algorithm on the CAPTCHA secret that is also displayed to the user via a cookie.
- Record
GHSA-5cwm-9hm2-r3cf- CVSS 3.1
- 5.3 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-326, CWE-804, CWE-863
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
5.3
The Appointment Hour Booking plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to CAPTCHA bypass in versions up to, and including, 1.3.72. This is due to the use of insufficiently strong hashing algorithm on the CAPTCHA secret that is also displayed to the user via a cookie.
- Record
CVE-2022-4036- CVSS 3.1
- 5.3 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-804, CWE-326
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| first indexed | CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2022-4036 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.3) in Dwbooster Appointment Hour Booking, published November 29, 2022. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.49%, the 42nd percentile. No source names a fixed version.
References
wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f62d28bd-fa33-4f0b-a116-5aacc05bfa3a?source=cve
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2803896%40appointment-hour-booking&new=2803896%40appointment-hour-booking&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories-continued
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-4036
github.com/advisories/GHSA-5cwm-9hm2-r3cf