Login Request a demo
High severity · published Aug 28, 2025
CVE-2025-53583
WordPress Employee Spotlight Plugin <= 5.1.1 - PHP Object Injection Vulnerability
8.1
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in emarket-design Employee Spotlight employee-spotlight allows Object Injection.This issue affects Employee Spotlight: from n/a through <= 5.1.1.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 25% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
ES
Employee Spotlight · emarket-design
through 5.1.1 · source: vendor
Affected product
ES
Employee Spotlight
emarket-design
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53583
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-53583
patchstack.com
https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/employee-spotlight/vulnerability/wordpress-employee-spotlight-plugin-5-1-1-php-object-injection-vulnerability?_s_id=cve