# Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads <= 8.10.7 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Listing Edit-Form Data Disclosure

- **ID:** WPSEC-2026-2564
- **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 4.3 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)
- **Weakness:** CWE-862
- **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-2026-2564/

## Description

The Directorist plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the AJAX handler that renders listing meta fields in all versions up to, and including, 8.10.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to retrieve the edit-form field data of arbitrary listings they are not permitted to edit by supplying a listing_id.

## References

- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2564/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/directorist/tags/8.11/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/directorist/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2564/

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.