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GHSA-MF2H-XR3M-X8JF

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-12-13 18:30 – Updated: 2025-12-13 18:30

Details

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.

Severity ?

5.3 (Medium)


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

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CVE-2025-13403 (GCVE-0-2025-13403)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-13 03:20 – Updated: 2025-12-15 15:34

Title

Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin <= 5.1.3 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Tracking Opt-In/Opt-Out Modification

Summary

Severity ?

5.3 (Medium)


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

CWE

CWE-862 - Missing Authorization

Assigner

Wordfence

References

URL

Tags

	https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabil…
	https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/employ…
	https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/employ…
	https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_…

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	emarket-design	Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin	Affected: * , ≤ 5.1.3 (semver)

Credits

Abhirup Konwar

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Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-MF2H-XR3M-X8JF

CVE-2025-13403 (GCVE-0-2025-13403)

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