CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-2224
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-03-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-862
Description
The Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory Plugin with Classified Ads Listings plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access and modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'parse_query' function in all versions up to, and including, 8.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the post_status of any post to 'publish'.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness
Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/trunk/includes/classes/class-add-listing.php#L912 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/trunk/includes/classes/class-add-listing.php#L942 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/trunk/includes/classes/class-add-listing.php#L960 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3260639/ plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/684e6a97-b884-4d25-99f1-81c2a43f1239?source=cve www.wordfence.com