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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":{"version":"3.1","score":7.2,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"high","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-12","score":0.00304,"percentile":0.23538,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-79"],"published":"2026-02-10T09:26:05Z","modified":"2026-06-17T10:16:38Z","products":[{"vendor":"jeroenpeters1986","product":"name directory"}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/29d13457-ac60-4e3d-9d8b-0141e6f8f4f6?source=cve"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/name-directory/tags/1.31.0/helpers.php#L604"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/name-directory/tags/1.31.0/shortcode.php#L193"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/name-directory/tags/1.31.0/shortcode.php#L41"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3455023/name-directory/trunk?contextall=1\u0026old=3446566\u0026old_path=%2Fname-directory%2Ftrunk#file3"},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-1866"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wj7p-g9vc-3935"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-1866","title":"Name Directory \u003c= 1.32.0 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Double HTML-Entity Encoding in Submission Form","description":"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. 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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.","status":"published","published":"2026-02-10T09:26:05.323Z","modified":"2026-04-08T16:43:23.138Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.2,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"high","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-79"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:20:01.271368Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2026-6880","description":"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. 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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.","status":"published","published":"2026-02-10T09:26:05Z","modified":"2026-04-08T16:43:23Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.2,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T19:25:05.139259Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-wj7p-g9vc-3935","title":"The Name Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via double...","description":"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. 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