Medium severity · published Dec 13, 2025
CVE-2025-13403
Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin <= 5.1.3 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Tracking Opt-In/Opt-Out Modification
4.3
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 14% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
ES
Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin · emarket-design
through 5.1.3 · source: vendor
Affected product
ES
Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin
emarket-design
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-13403
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-13403
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/employee-spotlight/tags/5.1.3/includes/plugin-feedback-functions.php#L19
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/employee-spotlight/trunk/includes/plugin-feedback-functions.php#L19
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3418117%40employee-spotlight&new=3418117%40employee-spotlight&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
www.wordfence.com
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/19738a82-8c31-45bb-a869-68e357299eb5?source=cve
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