CVE-2026-8892
CM Business Directory <= 1.5.7 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Business Address Meta Fields
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
The CM Business Directory – Optimise and showcase local business plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Business Address Meta Fields in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. Because the malicious payload is stored in post meta rather than post_content, WordPress's unfiltered_html capability restriction does not apply, meaning contributors who lack that capability can still inject executable HTML via the address meta fields such as cmbd_address, cmbd_cityTown, cmbd_stateCounty, cmbd_postalcode, cmbd_region, and cmbd_country.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium6.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.35% · top 71% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.4.
Weakness
Affected products
References (7)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ce3861a3-3a0f-4414-bea7-941c2d36fc39?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cm-business-directory/trunk/frontend/cm-business-directory-business-page-sc.php#L151 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cm-business-directory/trunk/frontend/cm-business-directory-business-page-sc.php#L107 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cm-business-directory/trunk/frontend/cm-business-directory-business-page-sc.php#L190 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cm-business-directory/trunk/backend/cm-business-directory-backend.php#L385 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cm-business-directory/trunk/backend/cm-business-directory-backend.php#L366 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3590314%40cm-business-directory&new=3590314%40cm-business-directory&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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