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CVE-2025-10178: CM Business Directory <= 1.5.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-09-26 · updated 2026-10-11
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The CM Business Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'cmbd_featured_image' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• creativemindssolutions CM Business Directory – Optimise and showcase local business: through 1.5.2

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cm-business-directory/tags/1.5.2/frontend/cm-business-directory-business-page-sc.php#L289
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cm-business-directory/trunk/frontend/cm-business-directory-business-page-sc.php#L289
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cm-business-directory/trunk/frontend/cm-business-directory-business-page-sc.php?rev=3364840#L280
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/cm-business-directory/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2c1ecd71-57ed-44ba-a007-3b96b98d3bf7?source=cve

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