WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

HivePress < 1.7.32 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Listing Attribute Value in Administrator-configured HTML Format

Description

The HivePress – Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'custom text attribute (user-defined field name)' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.31 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This is only exploitable when an administrator has configured a Text attribute whose display format places the %value% token inside an HTML attribute (e.g., title="%value%"), which is a documented HivePress pattern.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 1.7.32

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
zickzick2
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-10-09 (about 7 days ago)
Added
2026-10-09 (about 7 days ago)
Last Updated
2026-10-10 (about 7 days ago)

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