GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory <= 2.8.203 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Missing Authorization to HTML Injection via Category Description Fields on Listing Tags
- ID
- WPSEC-2026-3042
- Plugin
- GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory (geodirectory)
- Affected
- all versions before 2.8.204
- Remediation
- Update to 2.8.204 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-862
- Usage
- Plugin Low · Affected versions Low among sites WPSec scans, 2026-11-13
- Attack surface
- GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory on WPSec AttackSurface
- Fix released
- Published
Description
The GeoDirectory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data via the category description fields (ct_cat_top_desc, ct_cat_bottom_desc and other category fields) in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.203, due to the save_category_fields() function storing these fields from the request whenever a term is created, with no taxonomy, capability or nonce check. The function can be registered on a front-end listing submission by adding a GeoDirectory category taxonomy to the request. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above (and unauthenticated attackers when guest listing submission is enabled), to attach category descriptions to the tags they create with a listing and inject HTML content that is shown on those tags' archive pages. In releases before 2.8.183 the descriptions were stored without HTML filtering, which also allowed script injection.
References
- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-3042/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/geodirectory/tags/2.8.204/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/geodirectory/
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