CVE-2025-2224: Wpwax Directorist: Ai-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. 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 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'.

Affected products

• Wpwax Directorist: Ai-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads: up to and including 8.2

Published 2025-03-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.