# GeoDirectory <= 2.8.196 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure of Password-Protected Listings via REST API

- **ID:** WPSEC-2026-1599
- **Plugin:** GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory (`geodirectory`), https://wordpress.org/plugins/geodirectory/
- **Affected versions:** all versions before 2.8.197
- **Fixed in:** 2.8.197 (Update to 2.8.197 or later.)
- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)
- **Weakness:** CWE-200
- **Usage among sites WPSec scans:** plugin Low, affected versions Low (as of 2026-10-25)
- **Attack surface analysis:** https://attacksurface.wpsec.com/plugin/geodirectory
- **Fix released:** 2026-10-23
- **Published:** 2026-10-24
- **URL:** https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1599/

## Description

The GeoDirectory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure via the REST API posts endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.196 due to the endpoint not checking whether a listing is password protected before returning its data. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve custom field values (such as address, latitude and longitude), ratings, featured image and gallery images of password-protected listings without supplying the password.

## References

- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1599/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/geodirectory/tags/2.8.197/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/geodirectory/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1599/

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.