PT-2025-31915 · WordPress · Employee Directory

Muhammad Yudha · Published 2025-08-05 · Updated 2025-08-05 · CVE-2025-8295

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 plugin for WordPress versions up to and including 4.5.1

Description The Employee Directory plugin for WordPress is susceptible to Stored Cross-Site Scripting through the noaccess msg parameter due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This allows authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These scripts will execute when a user accesses the injected page.

Recommendations Update the Employee Directory plugin to a version newer than 4.5.1.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-8295

Affected Products

Employee Directory

References · 9

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8295 · Security Note
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1952663811367821589 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1952637807576453443 · Twitter Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/employee-directory/tags/4.5.1/includes/emd-form-builder-lite/emd-form-frontend.php · Note
• https://t.me/CVEtracker/29193 · Telegram Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3336753 · Note
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/employee-directory/#developers · Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6d06d721-ab48-43ae-81d6-bd0b3177a7bf?source=cve · Note
• https://t.me/cveNotify/130887 · Telegram Post