CVE-2026-84098: Unknown Directorist: Ai-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads WordPress plugin before 8.9.5 does not properly verify a listing's ownership before deleting it, allowing authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access and above to delete arbitrary listings, including ones belonging to other users. This is an incomplete fix of CVE-2023-1889 / CVE-2023-35052: a separate, unaddressed listing-deletion path allows the same impact, from at least version 3.1.0 through the current release.

Affected products

• Unknown Directorist: Ai-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads: from 3.1.0, before 8.9.5 (fixed in 8.9.5)

Published 2026-09-23. Last modified 2026-09-23.