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CVE-2026-16591

High 7.2

Published
Last modified
NVD status
Deferred

Description

The WP Directory Kit WordPress plugin before 1.5.8 does not sanitize and escape some of its category and location fields before outputting them in page attributes, allowing users with a WP Directory Kit WordPress plugin before 1.5.8-specific listing-management role (and without the unfiltered_html capability) to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks that execute for any visitor of the affected page.

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Metrics

CVSS 3.1
7.2 HIGH Score source: CNA CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS — exploit probability
0% percentile: 22 · as of 9 November 2026
CWE
CWE-79

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