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Description

The Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized tracking settings modification due to missing authorization validation on the employee_spotlight_check_optin() function in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to enable or disable tracking settings.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-11-19 | Published 2025-12-13 | Updated 2025-12-15 | Assigner Wordfence




MEDIUM: 5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Problem types

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Product status

Default status
unaffected

* (semver)
affected

Timeline

2025-11-19:Vendor Notified
2025-12-12:Disclosed

Credits

Abhirup Konwar finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-8c31-45bb-a869-68e357299eb5?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/.../plugin-feedback-functions.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/.../plugin-feedback-functions.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...potlight&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

cve.org (CVE-2025-13403)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-13403)

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