Vulnerability in HivePress – Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads Plugin

[ Description ]Official 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.

[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches

No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.

[ References ]References

• github.com/hivepress/hivepress/releases/tag/1.7.32
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hivepress/tags/1.7.31/includes/blocks/class-attribut…
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hivepress/tags/1.7.31/includes/controllers/class-lis…
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hivepress/tags/1.7.31/includes/fields/class-field.php
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hivepress/tags/1.7.31/includes/fields/class-text.php
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hivepress/tags/1.7.31/includes/helpers.php
• www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/723322ab-2ad0-42e2-b518-0987d9203c49