Stored cross-site scripting in GeoDirectory WordPress plugin
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.
Summary
All versions of the GeoDirectory WordPress plugin by paoltaia up to and including 2.8.200 are affected. Insufficient input sanitization and output escaping of the post_content parameter let attackers store script code in pages (CWE-79). An unauthenticated remote attacker can inject scripts that run in the browser of any user who opens an injected page.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-07
Description from the CNA
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.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| paoltaia | GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory | up to 2.8.200 | — | No fix listed | CNA |
- GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory Vendorpaoltaia Affected up to 2.8.200 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
Remediation
The sources list no fixed version for GeoDirectory (WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory).
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-07
Timeline
- 2026-11-07 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-120082
- 2026-11-07 Alias added: GHSA-pv48-453p-9559
- 2026-11-07 CISA SSVC decision points changed
- 2026-11-07 Priority changed: MEDIUM → LOW
References
Other 8
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2db386bd-3edc-48ae-9e32-ac57d472ab5b?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.200/includes/widgets/class-geodir-widget-dynamic-content.php#L456
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.200/includes/widgets/class-geodir-widget-dynamic-content.php#L169
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.200/includes/formatting-functions.php#L640
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.200/includes/class-geodir-post-data.php#L1732
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.200/includes/class-geodir-ajax.php#L830
- https://github.com/AyeCode/geodirectory/archive/refs/heads/master.zip
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3779924/geodirectory/trunk/includes/widgets/class-geodir-widget-dynamic-content.php
More paoltaia vulnerabilities
- TI-2024-12548 GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory <= 2.8.97 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2026-67425 GeoDirectory <= 2.8.186 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection via 'latitude' Parameter via Stored Pending Listing CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2026-70267 Unauthenticated local file inclusion in GeoDirectory WordPress plugin CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
- TI-2026-15607 Path traversal in paoltaia GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
- TI-2026-83249 Unauthenticated shortcode execution in GeoDirectory WordPress plugin CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
- TI-2024-12547 Cross-site scripting in paoltaia GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.4
Sources
- CVE-2026-120082 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-120082 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-pv48-453p-9559 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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