CVE-2025-15677 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The GeoDirectory WordPress plugin before 2.8.110 does not sanitise and escape a place-category setting before outputting it back in an admin page, allowing high-privilege users such as editors and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in a multisite setup).

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00163.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

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Vendors	Products

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/bb6daced-3ee3-4ec7-a221-9981cd85285a/

History

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 3.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 07:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-79

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		The GeoDirectory WordPress plugin before 2.8.110 does not sanitise and escape a place-category setting before outputting it back in an admin page, allowing high-privilege users such as editors and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in a multisite setup).
Title		GeoDirectory < 2.8.110 - Editor+ Stored XSS via Place Categories
References		https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/bb6daced-3ee3-4ec7-a221-9981cd85285a/

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2026-08-05T06:00:11.527Z

Updated: 2026-08-05T14:07:56.267Z

Reserved: 2026-07-24T08:59:26.573Z

Link: CVE-2025-15677

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-05T14:07:47.454Z

NVD

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Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-05T07:30:16Z

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