Directorist < 8.11 - Admin+ Cross-Site Account Lockout via Email Verification Bulk Action
- Exploited
- No known exploitation
- Fix
- Fixed in 8.11
- Who is exposed
- Not reported
Do first: Upgrade to a fixed version: 8.11.
- Last modified
- FIRST's estimate of the chance attackers exploit it in the next 30 days, updated daily.What do these mean? →
- 0.14% · 3rd percentile
- A 0-100 score for how much a CVE matters across the industry: exploitation, exposure, how widely the software is used, severity and whether a fix exists.What do these mean? →
- 8/100 · provisional
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
- Exploitation: none
- Automatable: no
- Technical impact: partial
Summary
The Directorist WordPress business directory and classified ads plugin has a flaw in its email-verification bulk action on multisite networks. An Administrator of one site on the network can use it to lock out users of other sites, including the network Super Administrator, until they re-verify their email.
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Read the original description
The Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads WordPress plugin before 8.11 does not check that the acting user may edit each targeted user when handling an email-verification bulk action on multisite, allowing an Administrator of one site on the network to lock out users of other sites, including the network Super Administrator, until they re-verify their email.
cve.now Index
- Exploitation0/40No signal
- Exposure3/25Reachable over the network · Unknown: No advisory context yet
- Reach?/20Unknown. No tracked technology or package matched
- Severity5/10CVSS 5.0
- No patch0/5No signal
What would change the score
- Would score about 63 if added to CISA KEV
- Would score about 58 if CISA's SSVC rates exploitation active
- Would score about 27 if advisories confirm default setups are exposed
What to do
Upgrade to a fixed version: 8.11.
Timeline
- CVE published
- First seen by cve.now
- CISA SSVC assessment
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
- Record last updated
Affected versions
- Unknown Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads
fixed in 8.11
Evidence 1
- Exploit
Corrections
None so far.
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Questions about CVE-2026-118530
Is CVE-2026-118530 being exploited?
It is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and CISA's SSVC assessment does not mark exploitation as active. That does not mean it has not been attacked: vendors and researchers can report attacks before CISA lists them. No public exploit code is tracked.Source: cve.now feed data
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-118530?
Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads: before 8.11.Source: cve.now feed data
How do I fix CVE-2026-118530?
Upgrade to a fixed version: 8.11.Source: cve.now feed data