CVE-2024-12041

Directorist – AI-Powered WordPress Business Directory Plugin with Classified Ads Listings <= 8.0.12 - Unauthenticated User Information Exposure

2025-01-31 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 8.1
Affected Plugin: Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads
Affected Version: <= 8.0.12
CVSS: 5.3Medium
Weakness type: CWE-359 · Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE: CVE-2024-12041

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At a glance

CVE-2024-12041 is a medium-severity Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in the Directorist WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 8.0.12. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 8.1; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed January 2025, reported by shaman0x01.

Vulnerability Overview

The Directorist: AI-Powered WordPress Business Directory Plugin with Classified Ads Listings plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 8.0.12 via the /wp-json/directorist/v1/users/ endpoint. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data including including usernames, email addresses, names, and more information about users.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-359: Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor

The product does not properly prevent a person's private, personal information from being accessed by actors who either (1) are not explicitly authorized to access the information or (2) do not have the implicit consent of the person about whom the information is collected.

Remediation

Update to version 8.1, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

This one needs no account at all, which puts it outside what login hardening can reach; WordSec's login security narrows the account-level paths around it, and the firewall is what inspects the request itself. None of that substitutes for the fix: Directorist 8.1 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

Login Security
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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12041 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0d9817ff-ca56-4941-97bc-f26defe7ddd5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12041

Related records

Other vulnerabilities in Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads

CVSS Vector

5.3

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityNone

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