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CVE-2026-104993: GeoDirectory <= 2.8.188 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Contact Email Custom Field
- 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: 2026-10-10 · updated 2026-10-13
- 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 'email (Contact Email custom field htmlvar_name)' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.188 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. Successful exploitation requires that an administrator has added and configured the Contact Email custom field to render on the public single-listing output page, and that the administrator subsequently approves the attacker's submitted listing.
Affected products
- paoltaia GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory: through 2.8.188
References
- https://github.com/AyeCode/geodirectory/archive/refs/heads/master.zip
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.188/includes/class-geodir-post-data.php#L949
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.188/includes/custom-fields/output-functions.php#L1448
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.188/includes/post-functions.php#L1845
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3728472/geodirectory/trunk/includes/custom-fields/output-functions.php
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1356ec70-4264-4687-8082-7d87a8978082?source=cve
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