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CVE-2021-24249: Business Directory Plugin < 5.11.2 - Arbitrary Listing Export

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-05-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Business Directory Plugin – Easy Listing Directories for WordPress WordPress plugin before 5.11.2 suffered from a Cross-Site Request Forgery issue, allowing an attacker to make a logged in administrator export files, which could then be downloaded by the attacker to get access to PII, such as email, home addresses etc

Affected products

• Business Directory Team Business Directory Plugin – Easy Listing Directories for WordPress: before 5.11.2 — fixed in 5.11.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Business Directory Team Business Directory Plugin – Easy Listing Directories for WordPress 5.11.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/fc4cf749-34ef-43b8-a529-5065d698ab81
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/fc4cf749-34ef-43b8-a529-5065d698ab81

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