CVE-2025-66078

Hotel Booking Lite <= 5.2.3 - Authenticated (Hotel Worker+) Remote Code Execution

2025-11-25 00:00
benzdeus

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 5.2.4
Affected Plugin
MotoPress Hotel Booking
Affected Version
<= 5.2.3
CVSS
5.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-94 · Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
CVE
CVE-2025-66078
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At a glance

CVE-2025-66078 is a medium-severity Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') vulnerability in the MotoPress Hotel Booking WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 5.2.3. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 5.2.4; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed November 2025, reported by benzdeus.

Vulnerability Overview

The MotoPress Hotel Booking plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in all versions up to, and including, 5.2.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Hotel Worker-level access and above, to execute code on the server.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Reaching this weakness in MotoPress Hotel Booking <= 5.2.3 takes an account at Hotel Worker level or above. Code injection means input from a request reaches a language construct that evaluates code, so the attacker's text is executed rather than treated as data.

The injected code runs with the web server's privileges, giving the attacker the same access to the database and filesystem as WordPress itself. For MotoPress Hotel Booking the fix is 5.2.4: builds <= 5.2.3 are affected, anything from 5.2.4 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 5.2.4, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

An attacker needs Hotel Worker access first, so the firewall sees the attempt as traffic from a logged-in account: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. Classes like this one can leave something behind, so the staged malware scanner is the second half: it looks for dropped files and modified code rather than for the request that created them. None of that substitutes for the fix: MotoPress Hotel Booking 5.2.4 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Scanner
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-66078https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/baa16b34-760f-4033-a9ee-e14b35e79542https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-66078

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