Medium severity · published Oct 14, 2026
CVE-2026-100185
Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads <= 8.10.2.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'phone' Listing Field
6.4
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'phone' Listing Field in all versions up to, and including, 8.10.2.1 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. This is possible because the plugin grants the edit_at_biz_dirs and publish_at_biz_dirs capabilities to the subscriber role, allowing any subscriber-level user to submit and publish listings without moderation.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 16% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DA
Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads · wpwax
through 8.10.2.1 · source: vendor
Affected product
DA
Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads
wpwax
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-100185
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-100185
www.wordfence.com
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bdddb715-4c49-419f-a599-51ff0857393a?source=cve
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/tags/8.9.6/includes/model/SingleListing.php#L1491
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/tags/8.9.6/includes/classes/class-add-listing.php#L303
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/tags/8.9.6/templates/single/fields/map.php#L10
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3730035%40directorist&new=3730035%40directorist
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