CVE-2023-4757: Staff / Employee Business Directory for Active Directory < 1.2.3 - Improper escaping of LDAP entries

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2024-01-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Staff / Employee Business Directory for Active Directory WordPress plugin before 1.2.3 does not sanitize and escape data returned from the LDAP server before rendering it in the page, allowing users who can control their entries in the LDAP directory to inject malicious javascript which could be used against high-privilege users such as a site admin.

Affected products

Staff / Employee Business Directory for Active Directory: before 1.2.3 — fixed in 1.2.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Staff / Employee Business Directory for Active Directory 1.2.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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