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Description

The CM Business Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'cmbd_featured_image' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-09-09 | Published 2025-09-26 | Updated 2025-09-26 | Assigner Wordfence




MEDIUM: 6.4CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Problem types

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Product status

Default status
unaffected

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affected

Timeline

2025-09-18:Vendor Notified
2025-09-25:Disclosed

Credits

Youcef Hamdani finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-57ed-44ba-a007-3b96b98d3bf7?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...directory-business-page-sc.php

wordpress.org/plugins/cm-business-directory/

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...siness-page-sc.php?rev=3364840

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...directory-business-page-sc.php

cve.org (CVE-2025-10178)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-10178)

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