Medium 6.4Published Jul 3, 2026

CVE-2026-8892CM Business Directory <= 1.5.7 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Business Address Meta Fields

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 26, 2026, 7:10 PM ET)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

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.

CVSS: 6.4 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-79
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Wordfence
NVD analysis: Deferred
Record last updated: Jul 6, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

creativemindssolutions CM Business Directory – Optimise and showcase local business creativemindssolutions:cm_business_directory_optimise_and_showcase_local_business (from the name)	through 1.5.7	CNA record

References

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ce3861a3-3a0f-4414-bea7-941c2d36fc39?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cm-business-directory/trunk/frontend/cm-business-directory-business-page-sc.php#L151
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cm-business-directory/trunk/frontend/cm-business-directory-business-page-sc.php#L107
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cm-business-directory/trunk/frontend/cm-business-directory-business-page-sc.php#L190
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cm-business-directory/trunk/backend/cm-business-directory-backend.php#L385
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cm-business-directory/trunk/backend/cm-business-directory-backend.php#L366
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=

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