CVE-2026-1866

The Name Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via double HTML-entity encoding in all versions up to, and including, 1.32.0. This is due to the plugin's sanitization function calling `html_entity_decode()` before `wp_kses()`, and then calling `html_entity_decode()` again on output. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page via the 'name_directory_name' and 'name_directory_description' parameters in the public submission form granted they can trick the site administrator into approving their submission or auto-publish is enabled.

• CWE-79

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/name-directory/tags/1.31.0/helpers.php#L604
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/name-directory/tags/1.31.0/shortcode.php#L193
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/name-directory/tags/1.31.0/shortcode.php#L41
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3455023/name-directory/trunk?contextall=1&old=3446566&old_path=%2Fname-directory%2Ftrunk#file3
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/29d13457-ac60-4e3d-9d8b-0141e6f8f4f6?source=cve

Published

Feb 10, 2026

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Deferred

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