CVE-2026-3907
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.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ if you've already worked around this in production โ publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
โ Propose a mitigation on Community โ Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
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
CWEs
CWE-79
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.