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CVE-2025-12090: Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin <= 5.1.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-11-01 · updated 2026-10-18
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Social URLs in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• emarket-design Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin: through 5.1.2

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3386767%40employee-spotlight&new=3386767%40employee-spotlight&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/45d7fe64-c51b-4801-a190-92396e5db27d?source=cve

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