CVE-2025-6236

Description

The Hostel WordPress plugin before 1.1.5.9 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-06-18 | Published 2025-07-10 | Updated 2025-07-10 | Assigner WPScan

Problem types

CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Product status

Credits

Bob Matyas finder

WPScan coordinator

References

wpscan.com/...rability/ff4d312b-a4d1-40cd-a555-a0a1b46f9959/ exploit

wpscan.com/...rability/ff4d312b-a4d1-40cd-a555-a0a1b46f9959/ exploit vdb-entry technical-description

cve.org (CVE-2025-6236)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-6236)

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