CVE-2026-120082 The GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Sc
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-120082?
CVE-2026-120082 is a high-severity vulnerability in paoltaia GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory, published on 7 Nov 2026.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-120082?
How do I fix CVE-2026-120082?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-120082 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2026-120082 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-120082 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-pv48-453p-9559.