CVE-2025-2224

MEDIUM5.3

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

Published Mar 25, 2025

Modified 11 months ago

Details

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'.

References

WEB

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/trunk/includes/classes/class-add-listing.php#L912

WEB

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/trunk/includes/classes/class-add-listing.php#L942

WEB

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/trunk/includes/classes/class-add-listing.php#L960

WEB

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

ADVISORY

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-2224

WEB