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Vulnerability · CVE-2025-5947

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

Published Oct 7, 2025 · catalog updated Oct 7, 2025 · Service Finder Bookings plugin for WordPress

Patch now

CVE-2025-5947 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog. Confirm Service Finder Bookings plugin for WordPress against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.

Severity
Unknown—
Known exploitation
CISA KEV and VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
4.51%
Remediation
Remediation guidance
Affected products
stated Service Finder Bookings plugin for WordPress · vendor aonetheme Service Finder Bookings plugin for WordPress

The Service Finder Bookings plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via authentication bypass in all versions up to, and including, 6.0. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's cookie value prior to logging them in through the service_finder_switch_back() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to login as any user including admins. Initial-access exploit intelligence.

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  • stated Service Finder Bookings plugin for WordPress<= 6.0
  • vendor aonetheme Service Finder Bookings plugin for WordPressversion unspecified

How to fix CVE-2025-5947

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

CVE-2025-5947 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog. Confirm Service Finder Bookings plugin for WordPress against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.

Which versions are affected?

Compare what you have installed with Service Finder Bookings plugin for WordPress <= 6.0. Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.

What should an analyst verify?

No weakness class is stored. EPSS 4.51%. The CISA KEV listing is the exploitation evidence. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Technology hubs

WordPress security

Code

The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.

No public source repository is identified for this product.

Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. Oct 7, 2025 · VulnCheck KEV

    Detected

    The Service Finder Bookings plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via authentication bypass in all versions up to, and including, 6.0. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's cookie value prior to logging them in through the service_finder_switch_back() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to login as any user including admins. Init

  2. Oct 7, 2025 · CISA KEV

    Known exploited

    Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2025-5947

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2025-5947

    30-day exploitation probability 4.5%

    first.org
  • VulnCheck KEVConfirmed exploitationCVE-2025-5947

    The Service Finder Bookings plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via authentication bypass in all versions up to, and including, 6.0. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's cookie value prior to logging them in through the service_finder_

    vulncheck.com

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 18, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.