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CVE-2026-120082VulnerabilityPublished

The GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable

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Authoritative record:CVE-2026-120082· High 7.2

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.2 High.

Data as of 7 Nov 2026, 04:36 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
7.2High
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

Thin evidence

One scorer or none
CVSS scores by source
CNA (Wordfence)CVSS 3.17.2
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 7 Nov 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 6 Nov 2026.

What to do

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
paoltaiaGeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings DirectoryAffected
  • <=2.8.200
Fixed in–

AI-suggested

Until a fix is available, users should consider disabling or restricting use of the affected plugin versions to prevent exploitation. Monitoring official GeoDirectory channels for updates is recommended.

Description

The GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory plugin for WordPress contains a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the 'post_content' parameter. This affects all versions up to and including 2.8.200. The vulnerability arises from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping, allowing unauthenticated attackers to inject malicious scripts that execute when users view the affected pages. The attack bypasses the plugin's shortcode filtering due to a nested shortcode payload and limitations in WordPress's strip_shortcodes() function and kses HTML filtering.

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