CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-13403

MediumCVSS 4.3
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.23%

13th percentile - higher than 13% of all known CVEs

Summary

The Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team plugin for WordPress in versions up to and including 5.1.3 is vulnerable to unauthorized tracking settings modification due to missing authorization validation in the `employee_spotlight_check_optin()` function. This allows authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access and above to enable or disable tracking settings.

Risk Assessment

A user with minimal privileges (Subscriber) can change tracking settings, potentially violating privacy or data collection policies in the organization.

Recommendation

Update the Employee Spotlight plugin to a version newer than 5.1.3 as soon as it becomes available, and consider limiting new Subscriber registrations until the update is applied.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS