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Is Connections Business Directory safe?
Closed. Replace it.
wordpress.org closed it on Jan 23, 2025 (security issue), so it gets no more security fixes, and 6 flaws are on record. If your site runs it, move to a maintained alternative.
- Flaws on record
- 6
- High or critical
- 1
- Exploited
- none
Every recorded flaw
- Sep 30, 2026Connections Business Directory: Does not apply its visibility and moderation-status restrictions on certain REST API read endpointsCVE-2026-86789 · affects up to 10.4.67 · reported by WPScanMedium 5.3
- Jan 25, 2025Connections Business Directory: Arbitrary directory deletionCVE-2024-12885 · affects up to 10.4.66 · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.5
- Jun 26, 2023Steven A: Auth. (contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)CVE-2023-29437 · affects up to 10.4.36 · reported by PatchstackMedium 6.5
- Nov 1, 2021Connections Business Directory: Does not escape the Address settingsCVE-2021-24794 · fixed in 10.4.3 · reported by WPScanMedium 4.8
- Nov 1, 2021Connections Business Directory: Does not validate or sanitise some connections' fieldsCVE-2020-36503 · fixed in 9.7 · reported by WPScan1.2% oddsHigh 8
- Mar 16, 2017Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in includes/admin/pages/manage.php in the Connections Business Directory plugin before 8.5.9 for WordPress allows remotCVE-2016-0770 · fixed in 8.5.9 · reported by Red Hat1.8% oddsMedium 6.1
Records come from the National Vulnerability Database, published by the researchers who found each flaw (Wordfence, Patchstack, WPScan and others); exploited status from CISA; exploit odds from FIRST’s EPSS; current version, installs and closures from wordpress.org, checked daily. Want every plugin on your site checked at once? Run the free website check.
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