Vulnerabilities and security researches forsimple-link-directory simple-link-directory

Jun 12, 2026

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2026-53741
Home page URL: Security reports for Simple Link Directory
Application: Simple Link Directory
Date: Jun 11, 2026
Research Description: Simple Link Directory through 9.0.4 interpolates the sld_no_results_found option into a JavaScript string literal without encoding. Because sanitize_text_field leaves quotes intact, a stored payload breaks out of the string and runs script for every page visitor.
Affected versions: max 9.0.4.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2026-53742
Home page URL: Security reports for Simple Link Directory
Application: Simple Link Directory
Date: Jun 11, 2026
Research Description: Simple Link Directory through 9.0.4 echoes embed shortcode attributes into HTML data attributes without escaping in the embedder template. Attackers with contributor access can craft a shortcode attribute that injects an event handler executing in a viewer's browser.
Affected versions: max 9.0.4.
Status: vulnerable

May 04, 2026

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2026-7209
Home page URL: Security reports for Simple Link Directory
Application: Simple Link Directory
Date: May 02, 2026
Research Description: The Simple Link Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's `qcopd-directory` shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 8.9.2. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes such as `title_font_size`. 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.
Affected versions: max 8.9.4.
Status: vulnerable

Jan 10, 2026

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-67576
Home page URL: Security reports for Simple Link Directory
Application: Simple Link Directory
Date: Dec 09, 2025
Research Description: Missing Authorization vulnerability in QuantumCloud Simple Link Directory simple-link-directory allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Simple Link Directory: from n/a through <= 8.8.3.
Affected versions: max 8.8.3.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-67465
Home page URL: Security reports for Simple Link Directory
Application: Simple Link Directory
Date: Dec 09, 2025
Research Description: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in QuantumCloud Simple Link Directory simple-link-directory allows Cross Site Request Forgery.This issue affects Simple Link Directory: from n/a through <= 8.8.3.
Affected versions: max 8.8.3.
Status: vulnerable

Dec 15, 2024

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-12417
Home page URL: Security reports for Simple Link Directory
Application: Simple Link Directory
Date: Dec 13, 2024
Research Description: The The Simple Link Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 8.4.0. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.
Affected versions: max 8.4.1.
Status: vulnerable

Jun 07, 2024

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2022-0760
Home page URL: Security reports for Simple Link Directory
Application: Simple Link Directory
Date: Mar 22, 2022
Research Description: The Simple Link Directory WordPress plugin before 7.7.2 does not validate and escape the post_id parameter before using it in a SQL statement via the qcopd_upvote_action AJAX action (available to unauthenticated and authenticated users), leading to an unauthenticated SQL Injection
Affected versions: max 5.6.0.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2019-13463
Home page URL: Security reports for Simple Link Directory
Application: Simple Link Directory
Date: Mar 21, 2020
Research Description: An XSS vulnerability in qcopd-shortcode-generator.php in the Simple Link Directory plugin before 7.3.5 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML, because esc_html is not called for the "echo get_the_title()" or "echo $term->name" statement.
Affected versions: max 7.3.5.
Status: vulnerable