PT-2025-23736 · WordPress · Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin

Muhammad Yudha · Published 2025-06-04 · Updated 2026-03-04 · CVE-2025-5531

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 4.5.0

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'emd mb meta' shortcode due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes. This allows 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.

Recommendations For versions up to, and including, 4.5.0, update to a version that addresses the insufficient input sanitization and output escaping issue in the 'emd mb meta' shortcode. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the 'emd mb meta' shortcode for users with contributor-level access and above until a patch is available.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-5531

Affected Products

Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5531 · Security Note
• https://twitter.com/unixterminal/status/2029033300971442670 · Twitter Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3295945%40employee-directory&new=3295945%40employee-directory&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= · Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/143c5f1f-032c-4207-9401-20f18efcad9d?source=cve · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/124561 · Telegram Post