CVE-2025-2224

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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'.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/684e6a97-b884-4d25-99f1-81c2a43f1239?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3260639/

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/trunk/includes/classes/class-add-listing.php#L960

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/trunk/includes/classes/class-add-listing.php#L942

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/trunk/includes/classes/class-add-listing.php#L912

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-03-25

Updated: 2025-03-27

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00042