---
id: CVE-2026-100185
title: >-
  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 inpu…
summary: >-
  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 inpu…
severity: medium
cvss: 6.4
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'
cwe:
  - CWE-79
published: '2026-10-14'
updated: '2026-10-14'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-14T04:18:03.807'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-100185'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/tags/8.9.6/includes/classes/class-add-listing.php#L303
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/tags/8.9.6/includes/model/SingleListing.php#L1491
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/tags/8.9.6/templates/single/fields/map.php#L10
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3730035%40directorist&new=3730035%40directorist
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bdddb715-4c49-419f-a599-51ff0857393a?source=cve
    label: security@wordfence.com
tags:
  - nvd
ingestedAt: '2026-10-14T05:14:27.653Z'
---

## Overview

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.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.