CVE-2026-3907
The Hostel plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'wphostel-book' shortcode in all versions up to and including 1.1.7.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.42%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
The Hostel plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'wphostel-book' shortcode in all versions up to and including 1.1.7. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied shortcode attributes. Specifically, the second shortcode attribute (used as button text) is passed to the `$text` variable without sanitization at line 79 and then output directly into an HTML `value` attribute at line 91 without `esc_attr()` or any other escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.4 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.42% probability · 36th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Source
- security@wordfence.com
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hostel/tags/1.1.6/controllers/shortcodes.php#L79
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hostel/tags/1.1.6/controllers/shortcodes.php#L91
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hostel/tags/1.1.6/models/hostel.php#L195
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hostel/trunk/controllers/shortcodes.php#L79
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hostel/trunk/controllers/shortcodes.php#L91
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hostel/trunk/models/hostel.php#L195
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3480942%40hostel&new=3480942%40hostel
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/30339c0d-6632-4073-b4d5-3bb4a5b8a58d?source=cve
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.