WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
WP Directory Kit < 1.5.8 - Listing Admin+ Stored XSS via Category and Location Title and Icon Fields
Description
The plugin does not sanitize and escape some of its category and location fields before outputting them in page attributes, allowing users with a plugin-specific listing-management role (and without the unfiltered_html capability) to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks that execute for any visitor of the affected page.
Proof of Concept
Affects Plugins
References
CVE
Classification
Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Yaswanth Reddy Sunkara
Submitter
Yaswanth Reddy Sunkara
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2026-09-24 (about 2 days ago)
Added
2026-09-24 (about 1 day ago)
Last Updated
2026-09-24 (about 1 day ago)