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'.
History

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 19:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Tue, 25 Mar 2025 05:30:00 +0000

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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'.
Title Directorist <= 8.2 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Post Publishing
Weaknesses CWE-862
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2025-03-25T05:22:48.169Z

Updated: 2025-03-31T18:18:28.816Z

Reserved: 2025-03-11T17:29:40.677Z

Link: CVE-2025-2224

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-03-31T18:18:24.651Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-03-25T06:15:41.327

Modified: 2025-03-27T16:45:46.410

Link: CVE-2025-2224

cve-icon Redhat

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