CVE-2026-16591highCWE-79

CVE-2026-16591: high-severity vulnerability in WP Directory Kit

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

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41Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendcvss 7.2epss 0.3%
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Unknown · WP Directory Kit
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