CVE-2024-13616: VikBooking < 1.7.2 - Admin+ Stored XSS

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2025-05-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS WordPress plugin before 1.7.2 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).

Affected products

e4jvikwp VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS: before 1.7.2 — fixed in 1.7.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: e4jvikwp VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS 1.7.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/44b3a2d9-a2e1-43dd-b27a-1ad9d6015c9b/
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/44b3a2d9-a2e1-43dd-b27a-1ad9d6015c9b/

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