CVE-2026-120082
7.2, highPaoltaia GeoDirectory - WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
- CVSS
- 7.2, high high CVSS v3.1
- EPSS, next 30 days
- n/a
- Exploitation
- No public evidence
- Published
- 7 Nov 2026today
Description
The GeoDirectory - WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'post_content' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.200 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The nested shortcode payload ([gd_dynamic_conten[gd_tags]t ...]) defeats the plugin's geodir_strip_shortcodes() guard because WordPress's strip_shortcodes() performs only a single pass over registered tags, and HTML-entity-encoded attributes in the resulting shortcode survive wp_kses_post() because kses inspects HTML tags rather than shortcode attribute values.
Details
- Vendor
- Paoltaia
- Product
- GeoDirectory - WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory
- Weakness
- CWE-79 (opens in a new tab)
- Status
- Deferred
- Updated
- 7 Nov 2026
- Assigner
- security@wordfence.com
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
References 8
Other references 8
- github.com /AyeCode/geodirectory/archive/refs/heads/master.zip (opens in a new tab)
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.200/includes/class-geodir-ajax.php#L830 (opens in a new tab)
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.200/includes/class-geodir-post-data.php#L1732 (opens in a new tab)
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.200/includes/formatting-functions.php#L640 (opens in a new tab)
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.200/includes/widgets/class-geodir-widget-dynamic-content.php#L169 (opens in a new tab)
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.200/includes/widgets/class-geodir-widget-dynamic-content.php#L456 (opens in a new tab)
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /changeset/3779924/geodirectory/trunk/includes/widgets/class-geodir-widget-dynamic-content.php (opens in a new tab)
- wordfence.com /threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2db386bd-3edc-48ae-9e32-ac57d472ab5b?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.
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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 7 Nov 2026, not the live upstream state.