# GeoDirectory <= 2.8.197 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure of Unpublished Listings via Business Hours, Ninja Forms and Report Post AJAX Actions

- **ID:** WPSEC-2026-1850
- **Plugin:** GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory (`geodirectory`), https://wordpress.org/plugins/geodirectory/
- **Affected versions:** all versions before 2.8.198
- **Fixed in:** 2.8.198 (Update to 2.8.198 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-862
- **Usage among sites WPSec scans:** plugin Low, affected versions Low (as of 2026-10-28)
- **Attack surface analysis:** https://attacksurface.wpsec.com/plugin/geodirectory
- **Fix released:** 2026-10-27
- **Published:** 2026-10-28
- **URL:** https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1850/

## Description

The GeoDirectory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure via the geodir_business_hours_post_meta, geodir_ninja_forms, geodir_report_post_form and geodir_submit_report_post AJAX actions in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.197, due to missing checks that the requested listing is published and viewable by the current user. These handlers load a listing by a user-supplied ID and return its business hours, render a Ninja Forms form with that post set as the global post, or accept a report for it. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to confirm that draft, pending, private or password-protected listings exist and to read their business hours and any post data the configured form shows.

## References

- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1850/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/geodirectory/tags/2.8.198/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/geodirectory/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1850/

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.