CVE-2025-2224 Information

Description

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 Vector

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

Reference

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/trunk/includes/classes/class-add-listing.php#L912 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/trunk/includes/classes/class-add-listing.php#L942 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/trunk/includes/classes/class-add-listing.php#L960 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3260639/ https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/684e6a97-b884-4d25-99f1-81c2a43f1239?source=cve

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

5.3