CVE-2026-77757: Unknown Directorist: Ai-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads WordPress plugin before 8.9.3 does not sanitize a user-supplied image reference before using it as the source of a file move, allowing users with a subscriber-level account to relocate arbitrary server-readable image files into a publicly accessible directory, and to delete them from their original location.

Affected products

• Unknown Directorist: Ai-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads: from 8.5, before 8.9.3 (fixed in 8.9.3)

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