Unauthenticated free bookings via unchecked quantity values
Published Sep 28, 2026 · Updated Sep 28, 2026
Payment bypass in Bookly before 28.3 allows remote attackers to book paid appointments for free via manipulated booking quantities. The server computes the appointment total from client-supplied quantity values without validating them, allowing a crafted value to reduce the total to zero and skip payment. Exploitation requires a site offering paid bookings with online payment enabled; Bookly's free plugin does not provide online payments.
Summary
What happened
Payment bypass in Bookly before 28.3 allows remote attackers to book paid appointments for free via manipulated booking quantities. The server computes the appointment total from client-supplied quantity values without validating them, allowing a crafted value to reduce the total to zero and skip payment. Exploitation requires a site offering paid bookings with online payment enabled; Bookly's free plugin does not provide online payments.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-86838
- Published
- Sep 28, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 28, 2026
- Vendor
- Bookly
- Product
- Bookly
- Classifications
- CWE-472, T1190
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Sep 28, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 28, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <28.3
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