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CVE-2024-13506: GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory <= 2.8.97 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Display_name Parameter

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-02-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the display_name profile parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.97 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.

Affected products

• paoltaia GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory: through 2.8.97

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.97/includes/admin/class-geodir-admin-post-view.php#L317
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3225839
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d0d9ba14-c0c9-426e-927e-9139a0882f0d?source=cve

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