paoltaia GeoDirectory Plugin up to 2.8.188 on WordPress email cross site scripting

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in paoltaia GeoDirectory Plugin up to 2.8.188. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. This manipulation of the argument email causes cross site scripting. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2026-104993. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in paoltaia GeoDirectory Plugin up to 2.8.188. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation of the argument email with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'email (Contact Email custom field htmlvar_name)' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.188 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. Successful exploitation requires that an administrator has added and configured the Contact Email custom field to render on the public single-listing output page, and that the administrator subsequently approves the attacker's submitted listing.

The advisory is shared at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-104993 since 10/02/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are necessary for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-96054). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• paoltaia

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• GeoDirectory Plugin

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• 2.8.188

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