Description
The GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Text-type Custom Field (e.g., 'phone') in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.181 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. The payload must be stored in a text-type custom field (such as a phone field) via the AJAX geodir_save_post endpoint, using entity-encoded angle brackets (e.g., <img src=x onerror=alert(1)>) to bypass the strpos()-gated tag-stripping check.
References6
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.181/in…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.181/in…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.181/in…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.181/in…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3705730%40ge…
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1390b079-784c…
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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6.4
MEDIUM
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 11 · as of 9 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-79
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