CVE-2026-84066
LowCVSS 3.1Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk3th percentile - higher than 3% of all known CVEs
Summary
The Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads WordPress plugin before version 8.9 does not verify that the requesting user owns the post being modified before writing uploaded file references to its metadata, allowing users with the subscriber role and above to overwrite image metadata on posts belonging to other users.
Risk Assessment
Users with low privileges can modify image metadata of other users' posts, potentially leading to data corruption or exploitation for further attacks.
Recommendation
Update the Directorist plugin to version 8.9 or later, which fixes the issue.
Other vulnerabilities in Directorist
See all- CVE-2026-59518Critical
The Directorist plugin for WordPress contains a deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability allowing object injection. The issue affects versions up to and including 8.8.2.
- CVE-2026-77757Medium
The Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads WordPress plugin before version 8.9.3 does not sanitize a user-supplied image reference before using it as the source of a file move, allowing users with a subscriber-level account to relocate arbitrary server-readable image files into a publicly accessible directory, and to delete them from their original location.
- CVE-2026-39509Medium
The Directorist plugin for WordPress has an authorization vulnerability that allows exploiting incorrectly configured access control security levels. This issue affects versions up to and including 8.5.10.
Original NVD description (English source)
The Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads WordPress plugin before 8.9 does not verify that the requesting user owns the post being modified before writing uploaded file references to its metadata, allowing users with the subscriber role and above to overwrite image metadata on posts belonging to other users.