Medium severity5.3NVD Advisory· Published Mar 25, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026
CVE-2025-2224
CVE-2025-2224
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'.
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Affected products
2<=8.2+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <=8.2
- (no CPE)range: <=8.2
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
5- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/trunk/includes/classes/class-add-listing.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/trunk/includes/classes/class-add-listing.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/directorist/trunk/includes/classes/class-add-listing.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3260639/nvd
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/684e6a97-b884-4d25-99f1-81c2a43f1239nvd
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