Staff Directory – Employee Directory for WordPress <= 4.5.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

CVE Details

Basic Information

Title Staff Directory – Employee Directory for WordPress <= 4.5.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Type cve
Published 2025-06-04T03:40:58.146Z
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Product Information

Vendor emarket-design
Product Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin for WordPress
Version *

CVSS Information

Base Score 6.4 (MEDIUM)
Attack Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Confidentiality Impact
Integrity Impact
Availability Impact

AI Analysis

AI Description The Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via the ’emd_mb_meta’ shortcode. This allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject malicious scripts into pages, which are executed when users visit those pages.
AI Severity Medium
Vendor emarket-design
Product Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin for WordPress
Affected Version <= 4.5.0

Additional Information

CVE List
CWE List CWE-79
Bulletin Family
Source Data emarket-design Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin for WordPress *

Source Information

Source Data emarket-design Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin for WordPress *
Source Link

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.

CVSS Score Summary

Base Score: 6.4 (MEDIUM)

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