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Apr 16, 2026

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2026-1279
Home page URL: Security reports for Employee Directory – Staff Directory and Listing
Application: Employee Directory – Staff Directory and Listing
Date: Feb 06, 2026
Research Description: The Employee Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'form_title' parameter in the `search_employee_directory` shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.1 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: max 1.2.2.
Status: vulnerable