CVE-2025-2224 — Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads [directorist] < 8.3

CVE	Vulnerability	Type	Severity	Affected	Fixed in	Published	Status
CVE-2025-2224	Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads [directorist] < 8.3	Missing Authorization	Medium 5.3	< 8.3	8.3	0000-00-00	—

CVE-2025-2224

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'.

Source: Wordfence

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