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GHSA-WJ7P-G9VC-3935

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-02-10 12:30 – Updated: 2026-02-10 12:30

Details

The Name Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via double HTML-entity encoding in all versions up to, and including, 1.32.0. This is due to the plugin's sanitization function calling html_entity_decode() before wp_kses(), and then calling html_entity_decode() again on output. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page via the 'name_directory_name' and 'name_directory_description' parameters in the public submission form granted they can trick the site administrator into approving their submission or auto-publish is enabled.

Severity ?

7.2 (High)


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

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CVE-2026-1866 (GCVE-0-2026-1866)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-10 09:26 – Updated: 2026-02-10 15:27

Title

Name Directory <= 1.32.0 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Double HTML-Entity Encoding in Submission Form

Summary

The Name Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via double HTML-entity encoding in all versions up to, and including, 1.32.0. This is due to the plugin's sanitization function calling `html_entity_decode()` before `wp_kses()`, and then calling `html_entity_decode()` again on output. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page via the 'name_directory_name' and 'name_directory_description' parameters in the public submission form granted they can trick the site administrator into approving their submission or auto-publish is enabled.

Severity ?

7.2 (High)


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

CWE

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

Assigner

Wordfence

References

URL

Tags

	https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabil…
	https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/name-d…
	https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/name-d…
	https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/name-d…
	https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3455…

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	jeroenpeters1986	Name Directory	Affected: * , ≤ 1.32.0 (semver)

Credits

Duy Thai

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Sightings

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Nomenclature

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Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
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Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-WJ7P-G9VC-3935

CVE-2026-1866 (GCVE-0-2026-1866)

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