Stored cross-site scripting in HivePress plugin for WordPress
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 is affected in all versions up to and including 1.7.32. The message attribute of the hivepress_user_login_form shortcode is not sanitized or escaped (CWE-79). An attacker with subscriber-level access stores script that runs in a victim's browser when the victim logs in through the form on the attacker's listing page, if listing submission is enabled.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-28
Description from the CNA
The HivePress – Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'message' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.32 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. Exploitation requires that the site administrator has enabled user listing submission, and the script executes in the victim's browser at the moment of successful login via the embedded form on the attacker's listing 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 the HivePress plugin for WordPress.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-28
Timeline
- 2026-10-16 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-109388
- 2026-10-16 Alias added: GHSA-8w67-xhw6-gqxx
References
Other 7
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5d1937ae-d350-452c-b20e-d85bc88dbe48?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hivepress/tags/1.7.32/assets/js/common.js#L1278
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hivepress/tags/1.7.32/includes/forms/class-form.php#L189
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hivepress/tags/1.7.32/includes/blocks/class-form.php#L89
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hivepress/tags/1.7.32/includes/components/class-editor.php#L417
- https://github.com/hivepress/hivepress/pull/374/changes/508b1766beb79949ab22dd4a163fafadb4c63e7d
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3747070%40hivepress%2Ftags%2F1.8.0&old=3732142%40hivepress%2Ftags%2F1.7.32
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-2026-109388 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-109388 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-8w67-xhw6-gqxx · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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