# GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory <= 2.8.199 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via AyeCode UI Popover Attributes in Listing Content

- **ID:** WPSEC-2026-2128
- **Plugin:** GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory (`geodirectory`), https://wordpress.org/plugins/geodirectory/
- **Affected versions:** all versions before 2.8.200
- **Fixed in:** 2.8.200 (Update to 2.8.200 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 Low, affected versions Low (as of 2026-10-30)
- **Attack surface analysis:** https://attacksurface.wpsec.com/plugin/geodirectory
- **Fix released:** 2026-10-29
- **Published:** 2026-10-30
- **URL:** https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2128/

## Description

The GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'data-toggle' and 'data-bs-toggle' attributes set to 'popover-html' in listing content and HTML/textarea custom fields in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.199, due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. The plugin's kses filtering keeps data-* attributes, and the bundled AyeCode UI script turns every element with a 'popover-html' toggle into a popover with HTML enabled and sanitization turned off, so the element's popover content is inserted into the page as raw HTML. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access and above, where front-end listing submission is enabled, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page and opens the popover.

## References

- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2128/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/geodirectory/tags/2.8.200/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/geodirectory/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2128/

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.