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6.4

Employee Directory Plugin for WordPress allows attackers to inject malicious scripts

CVE-2025-5531 · published 1 year ago
Summary

The Employee Directory Plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to a type of attack that allows attackers to inject malicious code into the plugin's pages. This could allow an attacker with contributor-level access to harm your website or steal user data. To protect your site, update the plugin to version 4.5.1 or later, or remove the 'emd_mb_meta' shortcode from your pages.

Original advisory text
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 versio...
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.
References
Fix within
Internet-facing 60 days
Internal At next upgrade
  • Not known to be exploited
  • Needs hands-on effort to exploit
  • Gives an attacker partial control
Severity
6.4 Medium
Exploitation
<1% chance of attack within 30 days
Type
CWE-79Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
Timeline
Published4 Jun 2025
Updated31 Oct 2026
First seen7 Mar 2026
Sources
CVE-2025-5531 · NVD
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