---
id: CVE-2025-13403
title: >-
  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 a…
summary: >-
  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 a…
severity: medium
cvss: 4.3
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N'
cwe:
  - CWE-862
published: '2025-12-13'
updated: '2026-10-07'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-07T20:10:01.970'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-13403'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/employee-spotlight/tags/5.1.3/includes/plugin-feedback-functions.php#L19
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/employee-spotlight/trunk/includes/plugin-feedback-functions.php#L19
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3418117%40employee-spotlight&new=3418117%40employee-spotlight&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/19738a82-8c31-45bb-a869-68e357299eb5?source=cve
    label: security@wordfence.com
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.00233
epssPercentile: 0.12949
ingestedAt: '2026-10-07T20:46:46.928Z'
---

## Overview

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.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.