CVE-2025-13403

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 3.1

4.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

EPSS

0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 14% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-862

Published

2025-12-13

Modified

2026-10-07

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/employee-spotlight/tags/5.1.3/includes/plugin-feedback-functions.php#L19
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/employee-spotlight/trunk/includes/plugin-feedback-functions.php#L19
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3418117%40employee-spotlight&new=3418117%40employee-spotlight&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/19738a82-8c31-45bb-a869-68e357299eb5?source=cve

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