CVE-2026-17092Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads <= 8.10.2.1 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Listing Deletion via 'listing_id' Parameter
- 8.1HighCVSS base score
- 0.52%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 55% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.52% · top 55% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.1.
Affected products
wpwax · Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads
- affected ≤ 8.10.2.1
References
References14
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bd520915-2605-450a-9abd-423f1c226eb6?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/tags/8.8.7/includes/classes/class-ajax-handler.php#L1260 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/tags/8.8.7/includes/classes/class-ajax-handler.php#L1256 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/tags/8.8.7/includes/classes/class-ajax-handler.php#L24 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/tags/8.8.7/includes/classes/class-listing-db.php#L101 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/tags/8.8.7/includes/classes/class-roles.php#L142 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/tags/8.8.7/includes/asset-loader/localized_data.php#L92 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/tags/8.7.3/includes/classes/class-ajax-handler.php#L1260 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/tags/8.7.3/includes/classes/class-ajax-handler.php#L1256 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/tags/8.7.3/includes/classes/class-ajax-handler.php#L24 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/tags/8.7.3/includes/classes/class-listing-db.php#L101 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/tags/8.7.3/includes/classes/class-roles.php#L142 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/tags/8.7.3/includes/asset-loader/localized_data.php#L92 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3730035%40directorist&new=3730035%40directorist (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-100769 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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