Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team: A security weakness
Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team is affected by a security weakness. Exploitation requires at least subscriber-level access. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team
- Plugin slug
employee-spotlight- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Dec 13, 2025
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Dec 13, 2025 and is one of 2 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical 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.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N