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Directorist – WordPress Business Directory Plugin with Classified Ads Listings, CVE-2025-12174

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2025-12174

Published on
Nov 19, 2025
Research 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.
Affected versions
max 8.5.3.
Status
vulnerable