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CM Business Directory Plugin – Business Listing Directory, CVE-2025-10178

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2025-10178

Published on
Sep 26, 2025
Research 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.
Affected versions
max 1.5.3.
Status
vulnerable