CVE-2025-5803
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedMissing Authorization vulnerability in e4jvikwp VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS vikbooking.This issue affects VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS: from n/a through <= 1.8.2.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceMissing Authorization vulnerability in VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS plugin for WordPress allows unauthenticated or low-privileged users to access sensitive administrative functions or perform actions beyond their authorized scope. The plugin fails to verify user capabilities or session validity before executing certain operations.
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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Verify VikBooking plugin is installedNavigate to WordPress Admin > Plugins and confirm 'VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS' is installed and activeAffected if The plugin is installed and active in the WordPress environment
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Check installed plugin versionIn WordPress Admin > Plugins, click on the VikBooking plugin to view its version number. Compare this to the affected version range for CVE-2025-5803Affected if The installed version falls within the vulnerable version range and has not been patched
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Identify existing user roles and capabilitiesNavigate to WordPress Admin > Users and review all registered user accounts. Check if any users have been assigned roles beyond what they should have (e.g., low-privilege users with Editor or Administrator roles)Affected if Low-privilege or unexpected users exist who may have gained unauthorized access through the vulnerability
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Audit admin actions and sensitive operationsReview WordPress activity logs, plugin audit logs, or server access logs for any administrative actions performed by unexpected users or at unusual times, focusing on VikBooking-related operations (booking modifications, availability changes, payment settings)Affected if Administrative actions were performed by users without proper WordPress capabilities (like manage_options) or by unauthenticated actors
A user is affected if the VikBooking plugin is installed, the version is within the vulnerable range, and unauthorized or low-privileged users have been able to perform administrative actions or access sensitive hotel management functions.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataImplement proper capability checks and authorization validation using WordPress nonces and current_user_can() verification for all sensitive admin actions and backend operations.
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- Implementation8.0 h
- Testing4.0 h
- Review / QA2.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
Primary sourcesPractitioner notes
ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2025-5803 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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