# Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads <= 8.10.7 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Author Display Name

- **ID:** WPSEC-2026-2562
- **Plugin:** Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads (`directorist`), https://wordpress.org/plugins/directorist/
- **Affected versions:** all versions before 8.11
- **Fixed in:** 8.11 (Update to 8.11 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 2026-11-05)
- **Attack surface analysis:** https://attacksurface.wpsec.com/plugin/directorist
- **Fix released:** 2026-11-04
- **Published:** 2026-11-05
- **URL:** https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2562/

## 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/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2562/

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.