Vulnerability in GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory — CVE-2026-96766

What to do now

Update GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory to 2.8.184 or later.

Affected versions

• Everything up to and including 2.8.183

The GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'business_hours' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.183 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 AJAX save handler validates only post authorship and a nonce with no additional capability check, allowing any subscriber-level user who owns a listing to exploit this vulnerability.

This description is reproduced verbatim from the public vulnerability record.

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.182/includes/business-hours-functions.php#L965
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.182/includes/class-geodir-ajax.php#L821
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.182/includes/class-geodir-post-data.php#L1661
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.182/includes/custom-fields/input-functions-aui.php#L2278
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3710682%40geodirectory&new=3710682%40geodirectory
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bc743651-cfbc-487b-9d1b-9aab6d3a57b7?source=cve

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