Stored cross-site scripting in HivePress plugin listing attributes
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- 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 HivePress plugin for WordPress (Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads Plugin) is affected up to and including 1.7.31. Insufficient input sanitization and output escaping (CWE-79) let an authenticated attacker with subscriber-level access or above inject web scripts that run when 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.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-29
Description from the CNA
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.
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 the HivePress plugin (Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads Plugin).
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-29
Timeline
- 2026-10-10 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-103520
- 2026-10-10 Alias added: GHSA-82fv-q4vm-rv8c
- 2026-10-11 Priority changed: MEDIUM → LOW
- 2026-10-11 CISA SSVC decision points changed
References
Other 7
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/723322ab-2ad0-42e2-b518-0987d9203c49?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hivepress/tags/1.7.31/includes/fields/class-field.php#L561
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hivepress/tags/1.7.31/includes/helpers.php#L382
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hivepress/tags/1.7.31/includes/blocks/class-attributes.php#L219
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hivepress/tags/1.7.31/includes/fields/class-text.php#L197
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hivepress/tags/1.7.31/includes/controllers/class-listing.php#L346
- https://github.com/hivepress/hivepress/releases/tag/1.7.32
More HivePress vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-76304 HivePress WordPress plugin remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.9
- TI-2026-14866 Improper authentication in HivePress Authentication CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2026-86529 Missing authorization in HivePress WordPress plugin CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.3
- TI-2026-75264 Stored cross-site scripting in HivePress via custom user attributes CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.2
- TI-2026-70282 Stored cross-site scripting in HivePress plugin for WordPress CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.2
- TI-2026-76059 Code injection in WordPress HivePress plugin CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
Sources
- CVE-2026-103520 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-103520 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-82fv-q4vm-rv8c · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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