Medium severity · published Jun 4, 2025
CVE-2025-5531
Staff Directory – Employee Directory for WordPress <= 4.5.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
6.4
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 13% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
ED
Employee Directory – Staff & Team Directory · emarket-design
through 4.5.0 · source: vendor
Affected product
ED
Employee Directory – Staff & Team Directory
emarket-design
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5531
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-5531
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3295945%40employee-directory&new=3295945%40employee-directory&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
www.wordfence.com
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/143c5f1f-032c-4207-9401-20f18efcad9d?source=cve
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