CVE-2026-16968: Unknown Geodirectory

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The GeoDirectory WordPress plugin before 2.8.168 does not restrict a user-search handler to users allowed to list users, allowing any authenticated user with Contributor-level access or higher to retrieve the email addresses of all registered users, including administrators.

Affected products

• Unknown Geodirectory: before 2.8.168 (fixed in 2.8.168)

Published 2026-08-05. Last modified 2026-08-26.