CVE-2025-1570: Wpwax Directorist

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory Plugin with Classified Ads Listings plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 8.1. This is due to the directorist_generate_password_reset_pin_code() and reset_user_password() functions not having enough controls to prevent a successful brute force attack of the OTP to change a password, or verify that a password reset request came from an authorized user. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to generate and brute force an OTP that makes it possible to change any users passwords, including an administrator.

Affected products

• Wpwax Directorist: before 8.2 (fixed in 8.2)

Published 2025-02-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.