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Directorist – WordPress Business Directory Plugin with Classified Ads Listings, CVE-2025-2224

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2025-2224

Published on
Mar 25, 2025
Research 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 versions
max 8.3.
Status
vulnerable