CVE-2026-116752

Impact

The GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'post_images' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.197 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 injected payload does not fire for the attacker directly; it executes in the browser of any Administrator or Editor who opens the pending listing's edit screen, making this a privilege-escalation-capable stored XSS chain triggered through normal editorial workflow.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• GitHub advisory
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w72p-j4h7-wwg8
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-116752
• https://github.com/AyeCode/geodirectory/archive/refs/heads/master.zip
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.197/assets/aui/js/geodirectory-plupload.js#L363
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.197/includes/class-geodir-media.php#L1264
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.197/includes/class-geodir-post-data.php#L329
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.197/templates/bootstrap/file-upload.php#L44
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3768833/geodirectory/trunk/assets/aui/js/geodirectory-plupload.js
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/197252d7-3098-43cd-b680-3d857ddb29ba?source=cve