CVE-2025-53243

HIGH 8.1

WordPress Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory plugin for WordPress plugin <= 4.5.5 - PHP Object Injection vulnerability

CVSS Score

8.1

EPSS Score

0.0%

EPSS Percentile

0th

Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in emarket-design Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin for WordPress employee-directory allows Object Injection.This issue affects Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin for WordPress: from n/a through <= 4.5.5.

CWE	CWE-502
Vendor	emarket-design
Product	employee directory – staff listing & team directory plugin for wordpress
Published	Aug 28, 2025
Last Updated	Apr 28, 2026

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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Affected Versions

emarket-design / Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin for WordPress

0 ≤ 4.5.5

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗

patchstack.com: https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/employee-directory/vulnerability/wordpress-employee-directory-staff-listing-team-directory-plugin-for-wordpress-plugin-4-5-2-php-object-injection-vulnerability?_s_id=cve

Credits

Martino Spagnuolo (r3verii) | Patchstack Bug Bounty Program