CVE-2025-13403 Missing authorization in Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin
Authenticated subscribers can modify tracking settings due to missing authorization checks in the Employee Spotlight WordPress plugin.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-13403?
CVE-2025-13403 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in emarket-design Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin, published on 13 Dec 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-13403?
How do I fix CVE-2025-13403?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-13403 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2025-13403 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-13403 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-mf2h-xr3m-x8jf.