Vulnerabilities / Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads / WPSEC-2026-2566
Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads <= 8.10.7 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Incorrect Authorization to Listing Moderation Bypass via REST Listing Status Update
Medium 4.3
CWE-863Fixed in 8.11
- ID
- WPSEC-2026-2566
- Plugin
- Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads (directorist)
- Affected
- from 8.8.1 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:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weakness
- CWE-863
- 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 unauthorized modification of data via the REST listing update-status endpoint in versions 8.8.1 up to, and including, 8.10.7, due to the permission check accepting any user who can edit the listing and holds the listing publish capability, which Directorist grants to the default user role, without checking whether the listing is awaiting administrator approval. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to publish their own pending listings without moderation.
References
- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2566/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/directorist/tags/8.11/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/directorist/
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