# CVE-2026-120082: GeoDirectory <= 2.8.200 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Nested '[gd_dynamic_content]' Shortcode in post_content

Status: published. Published: 2026-11-07. Updated: 2026-11-07.

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.

## Remediation

No remediation reported in collected sources

## Affected products and versions

- paoltaia / GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory: ≥ 0; ≤ 2.8.200 (affected, semver). Source: CNA: Wordfence

## Severity and prioritization

- CVSS 3.1: 7.2 (high); CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N; source: CNA: Wordfence

- CISA KEV: No listing in collected sources

- EPSS: Not available

- SSVC: Not available

- Weaknesses: CWE-79

## Exploit evidence

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

## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2db386bd-3edc-48ae-9e32-ac57d472ab5b?source=cve (CNA: Wordfence)

- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.200/includes/widgets/class-geodir-widget-dynamic-content.php#L456 (CNA: Wordfence)

- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.200/includes/widgets/class-geodir-widget-dynamic-content.php#L169 (CNA: Wordfence)

- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.200/includes/formatting-functions.php#L640 (CNA: Wordfence)

- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.200/includes/class-geodir-post-data.php#L1732 (CNA: Wordfence)

- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.200/includes/class-geodir-ajax.php#L830 (CNA: Wordfence)

- https://github.com/AyeCode/geodirectory/archive/refs/heads/master.zip (CNA: Wordfence)

- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3779924/geodirectory/trunk/includes/widgets/class-geodir-widget-dynamic-content.php (CNA: Wordfence)

## Provenance

- CNA: Wordfence: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-120082; retrieved 2026-11-07; source updated 2026-11-07

Revision: 90ebf96ed13d7e7ccb245cb15c9a47dc8bccebd3b2232dfac75149f35b799984

Canonical: https://y2.dev/cve/CVE-2026-120082

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