Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-5532

CVE-2025-5532:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Campus Directory – Faculty, Staff & Student Directory Plugin for WordPress is affected by a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2025-5532) in versions up to and including 1.9.0. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on June 4, 2025, affecting the plugin's 'emdmbmeta' shortcode functionality (NVD CVE).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the plugin's 'emdmbmeta' shortcode. The issue has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 6.4 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N. The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (NVD CVE).

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 theft of sensitive information or manipulation of page content (NVD CVE).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been patched in version 1.9.1 of the Campus Directory plugin. Users are strongly advised to update to this version, which includes fixes for the XSS vulnerability when using custom fields. The update also includes compatibility testing with WordPress 6.8 (WordPress Plugin).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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