CVE-2026-81271

GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory <= 2.8.176 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

2026-08-26 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 2.8.177
Affected Plugin: GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory
Affected Version: <= 2.8.176
CVSS: 4.3Medium
Weakness type: CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE: CVE-2026-81271

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At a glance

CVE-2026-81271 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the GeoDirectory WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.8.176. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.8.177; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed August 2026, reported by Brian Willows.

Vulnerability Overview

The GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.176. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on a function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform an unauthorized action via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site.

CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Reaching this weakness in GeoDirectory <= 2.8.176 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Cross-site request forgery abuses the fact that browsers attach a victim's cookies to any request, so a state-changing action that only checks who you are, not whether you meant to act, can be triggered from another site.

An attacker who gets a logged-in user to load a crafted page can perform that action as them, with the impact scaling to whatever the victim's role is allowed to do. For GeoDirectory the fix is 2.8.177: builds <= 2.8.176 are affected, anything from 2.8.177 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.8.177, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to GeoDirectory: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: GeoDirectory 2.8.177 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-81271 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/96103ad6-6800-401e-bbda-26ef3215b540 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-81271

Related records

Same weakness class

4.3CVE-2026-24549: GeoDirectory <= 2.8.149 Cross-Site Request ForgeryCVE-2026-24549

Other vulnerabilities in GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory

CVSS Vector

4.3

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionRequired
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityNone

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