TI-2025-04971 Aliases CVE-2025-5531 GHSA-rqj6-3rf8-6pgx

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

LOW 28CWE-79Published 2025-06-04 · Updated 2026-04-08

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Cross-site scripting
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: Low · Low · None
Fix status: No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00233 14th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
emarket-design	Employee Directory – Staff & Team Directory	up to 4.5.0	—	No fix listed	CNA

Employee Directory – Staff & Team Directory Vendoremarket-design Affected up to 4.5.0 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-5531
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-rqj6-3rf8-6pgx

References

Other 2

TI-2024-05779 Request a Quote < 2.4.1 - Admin+ Stored XSS CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.9
TI-2026-12634 Customer Support Ticket System & Helpdesk <= 6.0.5 - Unauthenticated Code Injection via 'path' Parameter CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2026-08619 WP Ticket <= 6.0.4 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection via WordPress Search 's' Parameter CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
TI-2022-02068 Request a Quote <= 2.3.7 - CSV Injection CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
TI-2026-12066 Request a Quote Form Plugin <= 2.5.5 - Unauthenticated Code Injection via 'path' Parameter CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
TI-2025-07706 Multiple Plugins by emarket-design <= Multiple Versions - Unauthenticated Limited Remote Code Execution CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1

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Sources

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