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CVE-2025-2224
Directorist <= 8.2 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Post Publishing
Medium5.3EPSS 0.42%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
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'.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.42% · top 64% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Weakness
Affected products
References (5)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/684e6a97-b884-4d25-99f1-81c2a43f1239?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/trunk/includes/classes/class-add-listing.php#L912 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/trunk/includes/classes/class-add-listing.php#L942 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/trunk/includes/classes/class-add-listing.php#L960 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3260639/ (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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