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CVE-2025-2224

Directorist <= 8.2 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Post Publishing



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'.

Reserved 2025-03-11 | Published 2025-03-25 | Updated 2025-03-31 | Assigner Wordfence


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

Problem types

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Product status

Default status
unaffected

*
affected

Timeline

2025-03-24:Disclosed

Credits

Michael Mazzolini finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-b884-4d25-99f1-81c2a43f1239?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/.../classes/class-add-listing.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/.../classes/class-add-listing.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/.../classes/class-add-listing.php

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

cve.org (CVE-2025-2224)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-2224)

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