Vulnerabilities and security researches foremployee-directory employee-directory

Jun 05, 2025

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-5531
Home page URL: Security reports for Staff Directory – Employee Directory for WordPress
Application: Staff Directory – Employee Directory for WordPress
Date: Jun 04, 2025
Research 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.
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable

Aug 06, 2025

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-8295
Home page URL: Security reports for Staff Directory – Employee Directory for WordPress
Application: Staff Directory – Employee Directory for WordPress
Date: Aug 05, 2025
Research Description: The Employee Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘noaccess_msg’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.5.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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.
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable