Hester

Hester has one disclosed vulnerability in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2025; it remains unpatched as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 6.4, and the most serious one scores 6.4 out of 10.

The most common weakness is Cross-Site Scripting, behind 1 of the records (100%).

The one issue recorded for Hester has no published fix yet, which makes virtual patching the only reliable mitigation. The oldest unresolved one dates back to 2025.

All of these findings were reported by stealthcopter. Hester is installed on roughly 100 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius.

Strategic Overview

Avg CVSSMedium

6.4/ 10

Patch Coverage0%

Open

Fixed

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Most severe open issueCVSS 6.4CVE-2025-26734

Hester <= 1.1.10 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

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Vulnerability Records

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2025-03-24 00:00	Hester <= 1.1.10 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting Hester <= 1.1.10	`CVE-2025-26734`	6.4 Medium	stealthcopter	No

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Latestv1.1.15

Hester

Author

peregrinethemes

5.0(4)

100/100

Last Updated

2026-08-21 (23d ago)

Active Installs

100+

Downloads

8,529

Requires WP

5.0+

Requires PHP

5.6+

Created

2022-03-29 (5y ago)

Hester is lightweight, modern, highly customizable multi-purpose theme. It’s perfect for blogs, small business, startups, agencies, firms, e-commerce shops as well as personal portfolio sites and most types of projects. Hester works perfectly with Gutenberg and the most popular page builders (Elementor, Brizy, Beaver Builder, Visual Composer, SiteOrigin). Hester is also WooCommerce ready, responsive & translation ready. We are continuously working to build more starter sites which you can import by single click. Checkout ready to import demos at https://demo.peregrine-themes.com/hester/.