# CVE-2026-103520: HivePress \<= 1.7.31 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Listing Attribute Value in Administrator-configured HTML Format

- Severity: CVSS 6.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-10-10 · Updated: 2026-10-11

## Affected

- hivepress HivePress – Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads Plugin: through 1.7.31

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on hivepress HivePress – Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads Plugin, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- 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

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