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CVE-2026-120082 paoltaia geodirectory – wp business directory plugin and classified listings directory: Cross-site Scripting

7.2 highEPSS 0.2%

High (7.2) in paoltaia geodirectory – wp business directory plugin and classified listings directory. EPSS 0.2% estimated probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

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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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.2 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS
0.2% estimated probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days; 16th percentile. Scored 2026-11-13. A forecast for this CVE across the internet, not for your own systems.
CISA's assessment (SSVC)
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial, assessed 2026-11-07. From CISA's Vulnrichment in the CVE List: whether it is exploited, whether exploiting it can be automated, and how much control it gives.
CWE
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting)
OWASP Top 10
A05:2025 Injection
Published
Modified
NVD analysis
Deferred: the NVD does not plan to analyze it
Record from
the NVD, synced

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Affected

  • paoltaia:geodirectory – wp business directory plugin and classified listings directory

Versions

From the CNA's record in the CVE List.

ProductAffected
paoltaia GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directorythrough 2.8.200

Attack patterns (CAPEC)

  • CAPEC-63 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Likelihood: High · Severity: Very High
  • CAPEC-85 AJAX Footprinting Likelihood: High · Severity: Low
  • CAPEC-209 XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch Severity: Medium
  • CAPEC-588 DOM-Based XSS Likelihood: High · Severity: Very High
  • CAPEC-591 Reflected XSS Likelihood: High · Severity: Very High
  • CAPEC-592 Stored XSS Likelihood: High · Severity: Very High

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