What is CVE-2026-118534?

CVE-2026-118534 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Directorist: Ai-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads, classified under Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2026-11-07.

How severe is CVE-2026-118534?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

Auth bypass in Directorist: Ai-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads

CVE-2026-118534

The Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads WordPress plugin before 8.11 does not verify that the order targeted by its checkout payment-retry REST action belongs to the requesting user, allowing any authenticated user, such as a subscriber, to create payment-attempt records against other users' orders.

Vulnerability class: IDOR (Insecure Direct Object Reference)

Published 2026-11-07 · last modified 2026-11-07.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

No EPSS score from FIRST.org yet. New CVEs usually get one within a few days; no score means no signal yet, not low risk. How EPSS works.

Affected products

Directorist: Ai-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-639 — Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/1cc11436-a4ea-4a6e-b163-f37bcd8a3bd8/ (technical-description, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-118534?: CVE-2026-118534 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Directorist: Ai-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads, classified under Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2026-11-07.
How severe is CVE-2026-118534?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.