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GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory <= 2.8.139 — Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Author+) Arbitrary Image Attachment

CVE-2025-12833Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤2.8.139Update to 2.8.140 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Medium4.3
CVSS
4.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:N Confidentiality
None
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory geodirectory

  1. Affected≤ 2.8.139
  2. Patched in2.8.140

Update to 2.8.140 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 2.8.139. Version 2.8.140 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 2.8.140, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to DityaRA.

The GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.139 via the 'post_attachment_upload' function due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to attach arbitrary image files to arbitrary places.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.8.202Update to 2.8.203
CVE-2026-124250
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Nested '[gd_dynamic_content]' Shortcode in post_content
≤2.8.200Update to 2.8.201
CVE-2026-120082
Medium6.4Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'post_images' Image Title Delimiter Injection
≤2.8.197Update to 2.8.198
CVE-2026-116752
Medium6.4Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'post_content' Parameter
≤2.8.199Update to 2.8.200
CVE-2026-119113
Medium6.5Unauthenticated Shortcode Injection via 'pagination_info' Parameter
≤2.8.198Update to 2.8.199
CVE-2026-118635

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 4.3

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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