CVE-2026-16591 PUBLISHED

WP Directory Kit < 1.5.8 - Listing Admin+ Stored XSS via Category and Location Title and Icon Fields

Assigner: WPScan
Reserved: 22.07.2026 Published: 26.09.2026 Updated: 26.09.2026

The WP Directory Kit WordPress plugin before 1.5.8 does not sanitize and escape some of its category and location fields before outputting them in page attributes, allowing users with a WP Directory Kit WordPress plugin before 1.5.8-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.

Product Status

Vendor Unknown
Product WP Directory Kit
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 1.5.8 (excl.)

Credits

  • Yaswanth Reddy Sunkara finder
  • WPScan coordinator

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) CWE