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Employee Directory – Staff Directory and Listing, CVE-2026-1279

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2026-1279

Published on
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