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Medium · 6.4 CVE-2026-3907 EUVD-2026-42842GHSA-9hmh-43jg-fm2x

Hostel <= 1.1.7 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'wphostel-book' Shortcode

Published Jul 10, 2026 · Updated Jul 10, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
prasunsen Hostel ≤ 1.1.7 —

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