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.
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Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Sun, 14 Dec 2025 21:30:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Emarket-design
Emarket-design employee Spotlight
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress
Vendors & Products Emarket-design
Emarket-design employee Spotlight
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 03:45:00 +0000

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Description 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.
Title Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin <= 5.1.3 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Tracking Opt-In/Opt-Out Modification
Weaknesses CWE-862
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2025-12-15T15:34:56.218Z

Reserved: 2025-11-19T14:00:48.283Z

Link: CVE-2025-13403

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-12-15T15:25:21.155Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-12-13T16:16:47.447

Modified: 2025-12-15T18:22:13.783

Link: CVE-2025-13403

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-12-14T21:15:06Z

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