# CVE-2026-103520: HivePress Business Directory Stored XSS in custom text attribute

Source: https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-103520-the-hivepress-business-directory-listings-classified-ads-plugin  
Publisher: Junglewise Threat Intelligence, https://junglewise.ai/threats  
Published: 2026-10-10. Updated: 2026-10-16  
License: CC BY 4.0 with a link back

CVE-2026-103520 · Severity: medium · CVSS 6.4 · Published 2026-10-10

HivePress is a WordPress plugin that manages business directories and classified ads listings. The plugin fails to properly sanitize user input in custom text fields, allowing authenticated users to inject malicious scripts into listing pages. When an administrator configures a custom field to display user values inside HTML attributes, attackers with subscriber-level access can inject code that executes for all visitors viewing the affected listings.

Technologies: [HivePress](https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/hivepress). Vendors: [HivePress](https://junglewise.ai/threats/vendors/hivepress).

## Quick answers

**Is CVE-2026-103520 exploited in the wild?** No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-103520 being exploited in the wild.

**How severe is CVE-2026-103520?** Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 6.4, published 10 October 2026.

**Which products and versions are affected?** HivePress up to 1.7.31.

**Is there a fix for CVE-2026-103520?** Yes: fixed in 1.7.32. Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.

**How is CVE-2026-103520 attacked?** It is attacked over the network, in a web application.

**Am I affected by CVE-2026-103520?** Check whether you run HivePress at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

## How to fix

- Fixed in 1.7.32

## Technical details

A Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability exists in HivePress versions up to 1.7.31 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping of custom text attribute values. The vulnerability is exploitable when an administrator configures a Text attribute with a display format that places the %value% token inside an HTML attribute (e.g., title="%value%"). Authenticated attackers with subscriber-level or higher permissions can inject arbitrary JavaScript that persists and executes in the browser of any user accessing the affected page.

## Affected products

- HivePress HivePress up to 1.7.31

## Timeline

- 2026-10-10: disclosed
- 2026-10-06: patched

## References

- [https://github.com/hivepress/hivepress/releases/tag/1.7.32](https://github.com/hivepress/hivepress/releases/tag/1.7.32)
- [https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hivepress/tags/1.7.31/includes/blocks/class-attributes.php](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hivepress/tags/1.7.31/includes/blocks/class-attributes.php)

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