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CVE-2025-2224: Directorist <= 8.2 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Post Publishing

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-03-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

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'.

Affected products

• wpwax Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads: through 8.2

References

• 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

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