Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin <= 5.1.3 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Tracking Opt-In/Opt-Out Modification

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-13403
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published December 12, 2025
Last Updated December 13, 2025
Researcher Legion Hunter
Description

The Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized tracking settings modification due to missing authorization validation on the employee_spotlight_check_optin() function in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to enable or disable tracking settings.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug employee-spotlight (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.1.3
Patched Version
  • 5.1.4
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