# Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads <= 8.10 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Listing Tags

- **ID:** WPSEC-2026-0488
- **Plugin:** Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads (`directorist`), https://wordpress.org/plugins/directorist/
- **Affected versions:** from 8.0 before 8.10.1
- **Fixed in:** 8.10.1 (Update to 8.10.1 or later.)
- **Severity:** Medium 6.4 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)
- **Weakness:** CWE-79
- **Usage among sites WPSec scans:** plugin Medium, affected versions Medium (as of 2026-10-07)
- **Attack surface analysis:** https://attacksurface.wpsec.com/plugin/directorist
- **Fix released:** 2026-10-06
- **Published:** 2026-10-07
- **URL:** https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-0488/

## Description

The Directorist plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via listing tag names in versions 8.0 up to, and including, 8.10. This is due to insufficient validation of tag names submitted with a listing, which can carry markup as HTML entities, and to the taxonomy dropdowns rendering term names as HTML. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access and above who can submit listings (or unauthenticated attackers when guest submission is enabled) to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute when a user views or opens a tag dropdown on the listing submission or edit form.

## References

- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-0488/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/directorist/tags/8.10.1/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/directorist/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-0488/

License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Free to use, share and adapt, also commercially, if you credit WPSec and link to this advisory.