CVE-2025-13403 json
Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin <= 5.1.3 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Tracking Opt-In/Opt-Out Modification
published 2025-12-13 10 mo ago modified 2026-10-07 32 d ago also EUVD-2025-203190
- cvss
- 4.3
- version 3.1, CNA
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.2%
- EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 14%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
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.
CISA SSVC
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- yes
- Technical impact
- partial
- Assessed
- 10 mo ago
Exploit prediction
0.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 14% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
CVSS scores
| assigned by | version | score | vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNA | 3.1 | 4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
Affected products
- emarket-design Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin
Classification
- Weakness
-
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization
- Technology feeds
References
- wordfence.com /threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/19738a82-8c31-45bb-a869-68e357299eb5?source=cve
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/employee-spotlight/trunk/includes/plugin-feedback-functions.php#L19
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/employee-spotlight/tags/5.1.3/includes/plugin-feedback-functions.php#L19
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3418117%40employee-spotlight&new=3418117%40employee-spotlight&s
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2025-13403
- NVD CVE-2025-13403
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