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Staff Directory – Employee Directory for WordPress, CVE-2025-8295

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2025-8295

Published on
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 4.5.2.
Status
vulnerable