CVE-2026-16591: Unknown Wp Directory Kit

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The WP Directory Kit WordPress plugin before 1.5.8 does not sanitize and escape some of its category and location fields before outputting them in page attributes, allowing users with a WP Directory Kit WordPress plugin before 1.5.8-specific listing-management role (and without the unfiltered_html capability) to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks that execute for any visitor of the affected page.

Affected products

• Unknown Wp Directory Kit: before 1.5.8 (fixed in 1.5.8)

Published 2026-09-26. Last modified 2026-09-26.