# Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads <= 8.10.7 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Incorrect Authorization to Listing Moderation Bypass via REST Listing Status Update

- **ID:** WPSEC-2026-2566
- **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:** Medium 4.3 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
- **Weakness:** CWE-863
- **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-2026-2566/

## 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/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2566/

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.