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

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-2224
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published March 24, 2025
Last Updated March 25, 2025
Researcher mikemyers
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'.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug directorist (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 8.2
Patched Version
  • 8.3
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