CVE-2026-110703

medium

Description

The GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'post_content' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.191 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This requires the attacker to own a published listing, as the ownership check in GeoDir_Post_Data::can_edit() limits who can store the payload; however, because ajax_save_post() re-applies the existing post_status, edits to an already-published listing bypass re-moderation and remain live immediately.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2af46137-6cdc-4898-8d59-3c603ebe02c4?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3746728%40geodirectory&new=3746728%40geodirectory

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.191/vendor/ayecode/wp-ayecode-ui/includes/inc/bs5-js.php#L328

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.191/includes/post-functions.php#L2032

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.191/includes/class-geodir-post-data.php#L1661

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.191/includes/class-geodir-ajax.php#L821

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-102831

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-10-16

Updated: 2026-10-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00216