Vulnerabilities / Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads / WPSEC-2026-2562
Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads <= 8.10.7 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Author Display Name
Medium 6.4
CWE-79Fixed in 8.11
- ID
- WPSEC-2026-2562
- Plugin
- Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads (directorist)
- Affected
- all versions before 8.11
- Remediation
- Update to 8.11 or later.
- CVSS 3.1
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Usage
- Plugin Medium · Affected versions Medium among sites WPSec scans, 2026-11-05
- Attack surface
- Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads on WPSec AttackSurface
- Fix released
- Published
Description
The Directorist plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the listing author name in the admin listings table in all versions up to, and including, 8.10.7, due to insufficient output escaping of the author's display name, which was printed into the author filter link and its title attribute without escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, who author a listing to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute when an administrator views the listings table.
References
- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2562/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/directorist/tags/8.11/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/directorist/
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