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WordPress Plugin: directorist: CVE-2025-1570: Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

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WordPress Plugin: directorist: CVE-2025-1570: Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
02/27/2025
Created
05/16/2025
Added
05/15/2025
Modified
05/15/2025

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • directorist-plugin-cve-2025-1570

References

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