CVE-2025-1570 describes a critical privilege escalation vulnerability affecting all versions up to 8.1 of the Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory Plugin for WordPress. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to take over user accounts, including administrators, by brute-forcing a password reset OTP due to insufficient controls in the password reset functions. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, potentially leading to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion has been observed, the high FAUCET Risk Score of 88/100 indicates its severe potential.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 8.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wpwax:directorist:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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