CVE-2026-93897GeoDirectory <= 2.8.181 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Text-type Custom Field (e.g., 'phone')
- 6.4MediumCVSS base score
- 0.21%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 89% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Text-type Custom Field (e.g., 'phone') in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.181 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The payload must be stored in a text-type custom field (such as a phone field) via the AJAX geodir_save_post endpoint, using entity-encoded angle brackets (e.g., <img src=x onerror=alert(1)>) to bypass the strpos()-gated tag-stripping check.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 7 days later
· 7 days 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 | Medium6.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium6.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.21% · top 89% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.4.
Affected products
References
References6
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1390b079-784c-4c36-bec4-a70cd8484ca5?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.181/includes/post-functions.php#L1347 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.181/includes/formatting-functions.php#L56 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.181/includes/post-functions.php#L1803 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.181/includes/class-geodir-ajax.php#L821 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3705730%40geodirectory&new=3705730%40geodirectory (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-2026-86533 (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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