Directorist <= 8.2 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Post Publishing

published 2025-03-25 19 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-8049

cvss: 5.3; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.4%; EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 36%
public exploits: 0; none known

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'.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

wpwax directorist 8.3

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 19 mo ago (2025-03-31)

Exploit prediction

0.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 36% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected products

wpwax Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads

Classification

Weakness

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Technology feeds

WordPress rss critical rss

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2025-2224
NVD CVE-2025-2224

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CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.

Summary