# CVE-2026-116752: CVE-2026-116752

Status: published. Published: 2026-10-31. Updated: 2026-11-01.

The GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'post_images' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.197 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. The injected payload does not fire for the attacker directly; it executes in the browser of any Administrator or Editor who opens the pending listing's edit screen, making this a privilege-escalation-capable stored XSS chain triggered through normal editorial workflow.

## Remediation

No remediation reported in collected sources

## Affected products and versions

Not reported in collected sources.

## Severity and prioritization

- CVSS 3.1: 6.4 (medium); CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N; source: NVD: security@wordfence.com

- CISA KEV: No listing in collected sources

- EPSS: Not available

- SSVC: exploitation none; automatable no; technical impact partial; source NVD SSVC: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

- Weaknesses: CWE-79

## Exploit evidence

No exploit evidence in collected sources. This is not proof of no exploitation.

## References

- https://github.com/AyeCode/geodirectory/archive/refs/heads/master.zip (security@wordfence.com)

- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.197/assets/aui/js/geodirectory-plupload.js#L363 (security@wordfence.com)

- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.197/includes/class-geodir-media.php#L1264 (security@wordfence.com)

- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.197/includes/class-geodir-post-data.php#L329 (security@wordfence.com)

- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.197/templates/bootstrap/file-upload.php#L44 (security@wordfence.com)

- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3768833/geodirectory/trunk/assets/aui/js/geodirectory-plupload.js (security@wordfence.com)

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/197252d7-3098-43cd-b680-3d857ddb29ba?source=cve (security@wordfence.com)

## Provenance

- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-116752; retrieved 2026-11-02; source updated 2026-11-01

Revision: 573117d38e7f703135468260b51f024078f9a4ff869b01c9e873c7aff603676d

Canonical: https://y2.dev/cve/CVE-2026-116752