PT-2025-51044 · WordPress · Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet The Team Plugin

Abhirup Konwar · Published 2025-12-13 · Updated 2025-12-13 · CVE-2025-13403

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin for WordPress versions through 5.1.3

Description The Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin for WordPress has a flaw that allows unauthorized modification of tracking settings. This is due to a lack of authorization checks within the employee spotlight check optin() function. Authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access or higher can enable or disable tracking settings.

Recommendations Update to a version later than 5.1.3.

Fix

Missing Authorization

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-862

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-13403

Affected Products

Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet The Team Plugin

References · 7

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-13403 · Security Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3418117%40employee-spotlight&new=3418117%40employee-spotlight&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= · Note
• https://t.me/CVEtracker/39678 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1999865387392041282 · Twitter Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/employee-spotlight/tags/5.1.3/includes/plugin-feedback-functions.php#L19 · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/employee-spotlight/trunk/includes/plugin-feedback-functions.php#L19 · Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/19738a82-8c31-45bb-a869-68e357299eb5?source=cve · Note