Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory Plugin with Classified Ads Listings <= 8.5.2 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Data Export and Slug Update

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-12174
CVSS Medium (6.5)
Publicly Published November 18, 2025
Last Updated November 19, 2025
Researcher Rafshanzani Suhada
Description

The Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory Plugin with Classified Ads Listings plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the 'directorist_prepare_listings_export_file' and 'directorist_type_slug_change' AJAX actions in all versions up to, and including, 8.5.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to export listing details and change the directorist slug.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug directorist (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 8.5.2
Patched Version
  • 8.5.3
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