Description
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.
Published: 2026-11-07
Score: 7.2 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
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History

Sat, 07 Nov 2026 05:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Paoltaia
Paoltaia geodirectory
Wordpress-extensions
Wordpress-extensions geodirectory
Vendors & Products Paoltaia
Paoltaia geodirectory
Wordpress-extensions
Wordpress-extensions geodirectory

Sat, 07 Nov 2026 02:45:00 +0000

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Description 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.
Title GeoDirectory <= 2.8.200 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Nested '[gd_dynamic_content]' Shortcode in post_content
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


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Paoltaia Geodirectory
Wordpress-extensions Geodirectory
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-11-07T02:29:12.999Z

Reserved: 2026-10-30T20:14:11.595Z

Link: CVE-2026-120082

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-11-07T03:17:02.673

Modified: 2026-11-07T03:17:02.810

Link: CVE-2026-120082

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Updated: 2026-11-07T05:00:08Z

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