CVE-2025-2224 (GCVE-0-2025-2224)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-25 05:22 – Updated: 2025-03-31 18:18
VLAI?
Summary
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'.
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
wpwax Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory Plugin with Classified Ads Listings Affected: * , ≤ 8.2 (semver)
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Credits
Michael Mazzolini
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