Stored cross-site scripting in VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.
Summary
The VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS plugin for WordPress in all versions up to and including 1.8.15 contains a stored cross-site scripting flaw (CWE-79). Insufficient input sanitization and output escaping of the attachments[name] parameter let an unauthenticated remote attacker store arbitrary web scripts. The scripts run in the browser of any user who accesses an injected page.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-29
Description from the CNA
The VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'attachments[name]' Parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.15 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.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
The sources list no fixed version for VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-29
Timeline
- 2026-10-10 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-95684
- 2026-10-10 Alias added: GHSA-5823-h3ff-8crm
- 2026-10-11 CISA SSVC decision points changed
- 2026-10-11 Priority changed: MEDIUM → LOW
References
Other 7
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/40092f13-fee7-4e88-b180-54554b22493f?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/vikbooking/tags/1.8.15/site/resources/chat.js#L916
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/vikbooking/tags/1.8.15/site/resources/chat.js#L712
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/vikbooking/tags/1.8.15/site/controllers/chat.php#L181
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/vikbooking/tags/1.8.15/site/controllers/chat.php#L197
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/vikbooking/tags/1.8.15/admin/helpers/src/chat/attachment.php#L103
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/vikbooking/tags/1.8.16/site/resources/chat.js#L916
More e4jvikwp vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-67459 VikAppointments Services Booking Calendar <= 1.2.21 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Deletion via 'old_vapcfN' Parameter CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
- TI-2026-58269 WordPress VikAppointments Services Booking Calendar plugin <= 1.2.20 - SQL Injection vulnerability CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2026-30960 WordPress VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS plugin <= 1.8.9 - Arbitrary File Deletion vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.6
- TI-2026-81752 Cross-site request forgery in VikRentCar leads to code execution CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2026-13335 VikAppointments – Services Booking Calendar <= 1.2.19 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2026-76910 Cross-site request forgery in WordPress VikRentCar plugin CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
Sources
- CVE-2026-95684 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-95684 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-5823-h3ff-8crm · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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