CVE-2026-17092
8.1, highWpwax Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads Missing Authorization Vulnerability
- CVSS
- 8.1, high high CVSS v3.1
- EPSS, next 30 days
- 0.5% higher than 44.1% of scored CVEs
- Exploitation
- No public evidence
- Published
- 14 Oct 20263 days ago
Description
The Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 8.10.2.1. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to delete arbitrary business directory listings, including those owned by other users and posts in publish, draft, or private status. The nonces guarding the endpoint do not constitute an authorization barrier because both directorist_nonce and atbdp_nonce_js are exposed to all logged-in users via wp_localize_script.
Details
- Vendor
- Wpwax
- Product
- Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads
- Weakness
- CWE-862 (opens in a new tab)
- Status
- Received
- Updated
- 14 Oct 2026
- Assigner
- security@wordfence.com
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
References 14
Other references 14
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/directorist/tags/8.7.3/includes/asset-loader/localized_data.php#L92 (opens in a new tab)
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/directorist/tags/8.7.3/includes/classes/class-ajax-handler.php#L1256 (opens in a new tab)
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/directorist/tags/8.7.3/includes/classes/class-ajax-handler.php#L1260 (opens in a new tab)
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/directorist/tags/8.7.3/includes/classes/class-ajax-handler.php#L24 (opens in a new tab)
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/directorist/tags/8.7.3/includes/classes/class-listing-db.php#L101 (opens in a new tab)
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/directorist/tags/8.7.3/includes/classes/class-roles.php#L142 (opens in a new tab)
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/directorist/tags/8.8.7/includes/asset-loader/localized_data.php#L92 (opens in a new tab)
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/directorist/tags/8.8.7/includes/classes/class-ajax-handler.php#L1256 (opens in a new tab)
6 more
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/directorist/tags/8.8.7/includes/classes/class-ajax-handler.php#L1260 (opens in a new tab)
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/directorist/tags/8.8.7/includes/classes/class-ajax-handler.php#L24 (opens in a new tab)
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/directorist/tags/8.8.7/includes/classes/class-listing-db.php#L101 (opens in a new tab)
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/directorist/tags/8.8.7/includes/classes/class-roles.php#L142 (opens in a new tab)
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /changeset?reponame=&old=3730035%40directorist&new=3730035%40directorist (opens in a new tab)
- wordfence.com /threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bd520915-2605-450a-9abd-423f1c226eb6?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 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.