CVE-2025-2224CWE-862

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

Medium · published March 25, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
35.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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'.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00420 · 35.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
Published
2025-03-25T05:22Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 25 MAR 05:22Z
    Directorist <= 8.2 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Post Publishing
    cvelistv5