Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessRegister Subscriber account on site
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DeliverySubmit listing with crafted data-bs-content payload
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ExploitStored past wp_kses_post sanitization
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ExecutionVictim views listing page
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PersistAyeCode popover renders payload as HTML
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ImpactScript executes in victim session
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization Output encoding, context-aware escaping
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Initial Access, Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Requires an authenticated account with Subscriber-level access or above (PR:L), which is only reachable where the site permits user registration or otherwise grants untrusted users listing-submission ability. The attacker must inject into the listing description (post_content) a data-bs-content value on an element that AyeCode UI treats as [data-bs-toggle="popover-html"]; the payload only executes because that popover is initialized with { html: true, sanitize: false } and because wp_kses_post preserves data-* attributes while geodir_kses_safe_embed_attributes() only strips data-embed-url, data-src and data-embed. Execution additionally depends on another user (visitor or administrator) subsequently viewing the injected listing page. Limiting factors: the Subscriber authentication requirement, dependence on the AyeCode popover rendering path, and affected versions being 2.8.199 and earlier. |
| Impact | This is a moderate, authenticated stored XSS (CVSS 6.4, CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N) reported by Wordfence and labeled 'this_month' priority by vuln.today - a real but non-emergency issue rather than a drop-everything threat. The signals are internally consistent: PR:L reflects the stated Subscriber-level requirement, AC:L reflects that no special timing or grooming is needed (the description details a deterministic sanitization gap, not a race), and S:C reflects that injected script executes in the browser of any other user who views the page. No EPSS score, KEV entry, or POC/exploit reference is present in the input, so exploitation probability cannot be quantified from the data provided; per the precision rules this is 'no public exploit identified at time of analysis.' The main factor keeping real-world risk below the CVSS number is the authentication prerequisite: an attacker needs at least a Subscriber account, which only matters where open user registration is enabled, and the C:L/I:L/A:N impact is limited to what XSS in a victim's session can achieve rather than direct server compromise. No data here is contradictory; the chief gap is the absence of EPSS/KEV/POC signals and an explicitly named fixed version. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | On a GeoDirectory site that allows user registration, an attacker registers a Subscriber-level account and submits a directory listing whose description (post_content) contains an element with a crafted data-bs-content attribute carrying an HTML/script payload. Because wp_kses_post preserves data-* attributes and the plugin's embed-attribute filter does not neutralize data-bs-content, the payload survives save and the AyeCode UI popover renders it as HTML with sanitize:false, executing the script in the browser of any visitor or administrator who opens the listing page. No public exploit code is identified in the provided data. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 30, 2026
Stored cross-site scripting in the GeoDirectory WordPress plugin through version 2.8.199 lets authenticated users with Subscriber-level access or above plant arbitrary HTML and script in a listing description (post_content), which executes in the browser of any visitor or administrator who later views that listing. The payload survives filtering because the plugin's geodir_kses_safe_embed_attributes() helper only strips data-embed-url, data-src and data-embed, while the bundled AyeCode UI library renders every [data-bs-toggle="popover-html"] element with { html: true, sanitize: false }. CVSS 3.1 scores this 6.4 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N), an authenticated, low-complexity, scope-changing stored XSS that is reachable only where the site lets untrusted users register and submit listings; no public exploit was identified at time of analysis. Wordfence reported the issue and vuln.today assigns it this_month priority.
RemediationAI
No tagged fixed release number is confirmed in the available data; the vendor changeset at https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3773530/geodirectory/trunk/vendor/ayecode/wp-ayecode-ui/includes/inc/bs5-js.php alters the AyeCode UI popover initialization path, so an upstream fix is available in trunk but the corresponding released version must be verified against the plugin's Trac changelog before upgrading. Applying a build that contains changeset 3773530 is the complete remediation. As an interim control, remove the injection prerequisite by restricting listing creation and editing to trusted, non-Subscriber roles - for example disable open user registration and any front-end listing submission granted to Subscriber-level accounts; the trade-off is that legitimate community-submitted listings stop working. Monitor the Wordfence advisory and the plugin's Trac log for the fixed version number.
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The bug is CWE-79 improper neutralization of user-controlled input during page generation, arising from the interaction between WordPress's kses filtering and the AyeCode UI popover component bundled with GeoDirectory. WordPress core's wp_kses_post permits data-* attributes on standard HTML tags, and GeoDirectory's custom geodir_kses_safe_embed_attributes() helper (in the formatting-functions and class-geodir-post-data code paths) neutralises only three specific attributes - data-embed-url, data-src and data-embed - leaving data-bs-content intact on save. At render time AyeCode UI initialization code in vendor/ayecode/wp-ayecode-ui/includes/inc/bs5-js.php binds every [data-bs-toggle="popover-html"] element with { html: true, sanitize: false }, inserting the attacker-supplied data-bs-content string into the popover DOM as raw HTML. The affected CPE is cpe:2.3:a:paoltaia:geodirectory_-_wp_business_directory_plugin_and_classified_listings_directory:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, and the save, formatting and render paths implicated by the advisory are includes/post-functions.php, includes/class-geodir-post-data.php, includes/formatting-functions.php, includes/class-geodir-ajax.php and the bundled bs5-js.php.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Remotely injectable via web submission (AV:N/AC:L); requires a Subscriber account (PR:L); script runs in another user's browser context, crossing a trust boundary (S:C) with limited C/I and no availability impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (Wordfence).
CVSS VectorVendor: Wordfence
DescriptionCVE.org
The GeoDirectory - WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the listing description (post_content) in versions up to, and including, 2.8.199 This is due to insufficient input sanitization on save (the bundled geodir_kses_safe_embed_attributes() helper only neutralises data-embed-url, data-src and data-embed, while WordPress core wp_kses_post permits data-* attributes on standard HTML tags) combined with the AyeCode UI library initializing every [data-bs-toggle="popover-html"] element with { html: true, sanitize: false }, which inserts the attacker-controlled data-bs-content value into the popover body as HTML at render time. 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.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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Attack Technique
Cross-Site Scripting occurs when an application accepts untrusted data and sends it to a web browser without proper validation or encoding.
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