CVE-2026-17092
Description
The Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 8.10.2.1. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to delete arbitrary business directory listings, including those owned by other users and posts in publish, draft, or private status. The nonces guarding the endpoint do not constitute an authorization barrier because both directorist_nonce and atbdp_nonce_js are exposed to all logged-in users via wp_localize_script.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/tags/8.7.3/includes/asset-loader/localized_data.php#L92
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/tags/8.7.3/includes/classes/class-ajax-handler.php#L1256
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/tags/8.7.3/includes/classes/class-ajax-handler.php#L1260
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/tags/8.7.3/includes/classes/class-ajax-handler.php#L24
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/tags/8.7.3/includes/classes/class-listing-db.php#L101
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/tags/8.7.3/includes/classes/class-roles.php#L142
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/tags/8.8.7/includes/asset-loader/localized_data.php#L92
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/tags/8.8.7/includes/classes/class-ajax-handler.php#L1256
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/tags/8.8.7/includes/classes/class-ajax-handler.php#L1260
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/tags/8.8.7/includes/classes/class-ajax-handler.php#L24
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/tags/8.8.7/includes/classes/class-listing-db.php#L101
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/tags/8.8.7/includes/classes/class-roles.php#L142
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3730035%40directorist&new=3730035%40directorist
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bd520915-2605-450a-9abd-423f1c226eb6?source=cve
CWEs
CWE-862
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.