# Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads <= 8.10.7 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Insecure Direct Object Reference to Featuring and Publishing Arbitrary Listings via Featured Listing Checkout

- **ID:** WPSEC-2026-2565
- **Plugin:** Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads (`directorist`), https://wordpress.org/plugins/directorist/
- **Affected versions:** from 8.8.1 before 8.11
- **Fixed in:** 8.11 (Update to 8.11 or later.)
- **Severity:** Low 3.1 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
- **Weakness:** CWE-639
- **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-2026-2565/

## Description

The Directorist plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference via the featured listing checkout in versions 8.8.1 up to, and including, 8.10.7, due to missing validation that the supplied listing_id belongs to, or can be edited by, the checking-out user. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, when monetization and featured listings are enabled, to create featured-listing orders for other users' listings. Once such an order is marked paid, for example when the payable amount is zero, the listing is made featured and published, bypassing administrator approval.

## References

- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2565/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/directorist/tags/8.11/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/directorist/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2565/

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.