CVE-2025-12174

Published: Nov 19, 2025Modified: Jun 17, 2026Deferred

6.5

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 2.5

Source: security@wordfence.com (Secondary)

Description

The Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory Plugin with Classified Ads Listings plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the 'directorist_prepare_listings_export_file' and 'directorist_type_slug_change' AJAX actions in all versions up to, and including, 8.5.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to export listing details and change the directorist slug.

Related CWEs

CWE-862

Missing Authorization

The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

References (2)

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3394856/directorist/tags/8.5.3/includes/classes/class-ajax-handler.php

Source: security@wordfence.com

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/796c0ded-3a23-4dd6-968a-a8e60bd8ea0e?source=cve

Source: security@wordfence.com

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