CVE-2025-2224mediumCWE-862

CVE-2025-2224: medium-severity vulnerability in wpwax Directorist: AI-Powered Business…

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

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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'.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Affected products
wpwax · Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads
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