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Vulnerability · 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 validat

Published Dec 13, 2025 · catalog updated Apr 8, 2026 · Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin

Last checked Nov 1, 2026. A connected source was read within the last 7 days.

Check if you run it

No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2025-13403. EPSS is 0.23%. Act only if a listed version of Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin is installed.

Gaps on this record

  • No vendor fix or required action is stored. Compare the linked advisory before you change production.

Same product and reporting

Severity
Medium4.3
Known exploitation
Not in CISA/VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
0.23%
Remediation
Vendor / distro source
Affected products
vendor emarket-design Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin 0 ≤5.1.3

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.

Are you affected?

Enter the version you run. The result uses only the ranges stored on this record.

The check returns affected, not affected, or incomplete. It does not guess a version that is missing from the record.

  • vendor emarket-design Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin 0 ≤5.1.30 ≤5.1.3

How to fix CVE-2025-13403

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2025-13403. EPSS is 0.23%. Act only if a listed version of Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin is installed.

Which versions are affected?

Compare what you have installed with emarket-design Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin 0 ≤5.1.3 0 ≤5.1.3. Compare the installed version with the linked vendor advisory before you change production.

What should an analyst verify?

No weakness class is stored. EPSS 0.23%. There is no CISA KEV listing. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Technology hubs

WordPress security

Code

The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.

Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. Dec 13, 2025 · EUVD

    Detected

    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

  2. Apr 8, 2026 · EUVD

    Updated

    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

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2025-13403

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2025-13403

    30-day exploitation probability 0.23%

    first.org
  • EUVDVulnerability recordEUVD-2025-203190

    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. Th

    euvd.enisa.europa.eu

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Nov 1, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.

  • FIRST EPSSNov 1, 2026
  • CVE.orgOct 27, 2026
  • EUVDOct 26, 2026