CVE-2025-13403 (GCVE-0-2025-13403)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-13 03:20
Modified
2025-12-13 03:20
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CWE
- CWE-862 - Missing Authorization
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| emarket-design | Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin |
Version: * ≤ 5.1.3 |
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"url": "https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/19738a82-8c31-45bb-a869-68e357299eb5?source=cve"
},
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"url": "https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/employee-spotlight/trunk/includes/plugin-feedback-functions.php#L19"
},
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"url": "https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/employee-spotlight/tags/5.1.3/includes/plugin-feedback-functions.php#L19"
},
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"url": "https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=\u0026sfph_mail=\u0026reponame=\u0026old=3418117%40employee-spotlight\u0026new=3418117%40employee-spotlight\u0026sfp_email=\u0026sfph_mail="
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Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date |
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Nomenclature
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