How to Pass the kWAPTA Exam - Insights from a Reviewer
I recently served as a reviewer for the kWAPTA (Certified Web App Penetration Testing Apprentice) exam. Reviewing candidate performance gave me a very clear picture of what works,...
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Tareq is a founding member of the Knight Squad community and is part of Knight Squad Academy as an Offensive Security Researcher. He takes classes and contributes to certification design and assessment development, with a focus on web application security, practical testing, and responsible vulnerability research. He has responsibly reported vulnerabilities to organizations and projects including Meta (Facebook), Yahoo, Mozilla, Nextcloud, and Apache Airflow, and his research work includes 3+ published CVEs. He holds recognized certifications including eJPT, CRTA, CAPen, and C-APIPen, and supports hands-on learning by creating CTF challenges for KnightCTF and BDSec CTF.
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CVE-2026-8684
The MotoPress Hotel Booking plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 6.0.1. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to overwrite or delete the internal notes (_mphb_booking_internal_notes) of any booking by supplying an arbitrary booking ID. The nonce for this action is output in the HTML source of every public page through wp_localize_script (MPHB._data.nonces), so any unauthenticated visitor can obtain a valid nonce and perform the action without any account or prior interaction.
View advisoryCVE-2026-1250
The Court Reservation – Manage Your Court Bookings Online plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to generic SQL Injection via the ‘id’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.10.11 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.
View advisoryCVE-2026-2262
The Easy Appointments plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 3.12.21 via the `/wp-json/wp/v2/eablocks/ea_appointments/` REST API endpoint. This is due to the endpoint being registered with `'permission_callback' => '__return_true'`, which allows access without any authentication or authorization checks. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive customer appointment data including full names, email addresses, phone numbers, IP addresses, appointment descriptions, and pricing information.
View advisoryCVE-2026-1980
The WPBookit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized data disclosure due to a missing authorization check on the 'get_customer_list' route in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.8. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve sensitive customer information including names, emails, phone numbers, dates of birth, and gender.
View advisoryCVE-2026-1945
The WPBookit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'wpb_user_name' and 'wpb_user_email' parameters in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
View advisoryCVE-2026-1987
The Scheduler Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 0.1.6. This is due to the `scheduler_widget_ajax_save_event()` function lacking proper authorization checks and ownership verification when updating events. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to modify any event in the scheduler via the `id` parameter granted they have knowledge of the event ID.
View advisoryCVE-2026-1983
The SEATT: Simple Event Attendance plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.0. This is due to missing nonce validation on the event deletion functionality. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary events via a forged request granted they can trick an administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
View advisoryCVE-2026-1932
The Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin – Bookr plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the update-appointment REST API endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify the status of any appointment.
View advisoryCVE-2025-14843
The Wizit Gateway for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Order Cancellation in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.9. This is due to a lack of authentication and authorization checks in the 'handle_checkout_redirecturl_response' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to cancel arbitrary WooCommerce orders by sending a crafted request with a valid order ID.
View advisoryCVE-2023-49920
Apache Airflow, version 2.7.0 through 2.7.3, has a vulnerability that allows an attacker to trigger a DAG in a GET request without CSRF validation. As a result, it was possible for a malicious website opened in the same browser - by the user who also had Airflow UI opened - to trigger the execution of DAGs without the user's consent. Users are advised to upgrade to version 2.8.0 or later which is not affected
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I recently served as a reviewer for the kWAPTA (Certified Web App Penetration Testing Apprentice) exam. Reviewing candidate performance gave me a very clear picture of what works,...