CVE-2025-53243: WordPress Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory plugin for WordPress plugin <= 4.5.5 - PHP Object Injection vulnerability

Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-08-28 · updated 2026-10-18
Weakness: CWE-502

Description

Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in emarket-design Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin for WordPress employee-directory allows Object Injection.This issue affects Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin for WordPress: from n/a through <= 4.5.5.

Affected products

emarket-design Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin for WordPress: through 4.5.5

References

https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/employee-directory/vulnerability/wordpress-employee-directory-staff-listing-team-directory-plugin-for-wordpress-plugin-4-5-2-php-object-injection-vulnerability?_s_id=cve

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