CVE-2026-118530
Directorist < 8.11 - Admin+ Cross-Site Account Lockout via Email Verification Bulk Action
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.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- High
- Privileges needed
- High
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- High
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
Directorist < 8.11 - Admin+ Cross-Site Account Lockout via Email Verification Bulk Action
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.
- Record
CVE-2026-118530- CVSS 3.1
- 5.0 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-863
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
EUVDEUVD-2026-118936
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.
- Record
EUVD-2026-118936- CVSS 3.1
- 5.0 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-07
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-7fjq-qqj3-wh4h
The Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads WordPress plugin before...
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.
- Record
GHSA-7fjq-qqj3-wh4h- CVSS 3.1
- 5.0 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-863
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
NVD
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.
- Record
CVE-2026-118530- CVSS 3.1
- 5.0 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-863
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| cwes, severity | CVE List | |
| severity | EUVD, NVD | |
| published | EUVD | |
| published | EUVD | |
| aliases, products, published | EUVD | |
| aliases, references | GitHub Advisories | |
| first indexed | CVE List |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2026-118530 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.0) in Unknown Directorist: Ai-powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads, published November 7, 2026. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.14%, the 3rd percentile. No source names a fixed version.