Stored cross-site scripting in HivePress plugin for WordPress
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 HivePress plugin for WordPress is affected in all versions up to and including 1.7.31. Insufficient input sanitization and output escaping of custom user attribute values (CWE-79) allows stored cross-site scripting. An unauthenticated attacker can inject scripts that run when a user opens an affected page, but only if an administrator has configured a text-type custom user attribute displayed inside an HTML attribute and front-end user profiles are enabled.
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 user attribute field name, e.g. profile_test>' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.31 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. This requires an administrator to have configured a text-type custom user attribute whose display format places %value% inside an HTML attribute context (e.g., the documented pattern <a href="%value%">Custom link</a>), and for front-end user profiles to be enabled — both of which reflect the plugin's standard, documented configuration.
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 HivePress, 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-2026-107657
- 2026-10-10 Alias added: GHSA-334w-8qrq-p7jf
- 2026-10-11 CISA SSVC decision points changed
- 2026-10-11 Priority changed: MEDIUM → LOW
References
Other 6
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d0e73b59-58d7-4f4b-b7f3-568190be9b09?source=cve
- 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/fields/class-field.php#L561
- 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/components/class-attribute.php#L1298
- 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-2026-76059 Code injection in WordPress HivePress plugin CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
- TI-2026-75267 Stored cross-site scripting in HivePress plugin for WordPress CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.4
Sources
- CVE-2026-107657 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-107657 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-334w-8qrq-p7jf · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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