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The payload must be stored in a text-type custom field (such as a phone field) via the AJAX geodir_save_post endpoint, using entity-encoded angle brackets (e.g., &lt;img src=x onerror=alert(1)&gt;) to bypass the strpos()-gated tag-stripping check.","publishedAt":"2026-09-25T06:39:51.760Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-25T13:29:12.800Z","severity":{"score":6.4,"label":"Medium","version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","source":"Wordfence"},"assigner":"Wordfence","products":["paoltaia GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory"],"affected":[{"vendor":"paoltaia","product":"GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory","defaultStatus":"unaffected","versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","lessThanOrEqual":"2.8.181","versionType":"semver"}]}],"references":["https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1390b079-784c-4c36-bec4-a70cd8484ca5?source=cve","https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.181/includes/post-functions.php#L1347","https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.181/includes/formatting-functions.php#L56","https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.181/includes/post-functions.php#L1803","https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/geodirectory/tags/2.8.181/includes/class-geodir-ajax.php#L821","https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3705730%40geodirectory&new=3705730%40geodirectory"],"weaknesses":["CWE-79"],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-29T20:13:34.582Z","source":{"repository":"CVEProject/cvelistV5","path":"cves/2026/93xxx/CVE-2026-93897.json","commit":"556c9d3a8cd17e218bb8e452ba7cd619a384ff47"},"raw":{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2026-93897","state":"PUBLISHED","datePublished":"2026-09-25T06:39:51.760Z","dateUpdated":"2026-09-25T13:29:12.800Z","assignerShortName":"Wordfence","assignerOrgId":"b15e7b5b-3da4-40ae-a43c-f7aa60e62599","dateReserved":"2026-09-18T20:33:01.377Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"title":"GeoDirectory <= 2.8.181 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Text-type Custom Field (e.g., 'phone')","descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"The GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Text-type Custom Field (e.g., 'phone') in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.181 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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