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CVE-2025-5531: Staff Directory – Employee Directory for WordPress <= 4.5.0 - 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: 2025-06-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'emd_mb_meta' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 4.5.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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 Directory – Staff & Team Directory: through 4.5.0

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3295945%40employee-directory&new=3295945%40employee-directory&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/143c5f1f-032c-4207-9401-20f18efcad9d?source=cve

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