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CVE-2025-5531:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin for WordPress is affected by a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2025-5531) discovered in June 2025. The vulnerability exists in versions up to and including 4.5.0, specifically in the plugin's 'emdmbmeta' shortcode. This security issue was assigned a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 6.4 (Medium) (NVD, Wiz).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (CWE-79) issue with a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 6.4 (Medium). The attack vector is network-based (AV:N), with low attack complexity (AC:L), requiring low privileges (PR:L), no user interaction (UI:N), and affecting changed scope (S:C) with low confidentiality and integrity impact (C:L, I:L) and no availability impact (A:N) (NVD, Wiz).
Impact
When exploited, this vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever a user accesses the compromised page, potentially leading to unauthorized data access or manipulation of user sessions (NVD, Wiz).
Mitigation and workarounds
The vulnerability has been patched in version 4.5.1 of the Employee Directory plugin. Users are advised to update to this latest version which includes fixes for the XSS vulnerability when using custom fields (WordPress Changeset).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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