{"id":64344,"date":"2025-06-04T08:31:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T05:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-5531-wordpress-employee-directory-stored-cross-site-scripting\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T08:31:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T05:01:58","slug":"cve-2025-5531-wordpress-employee-directory-stored-cross-site-scripting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-5531-wordpress-employee-directory-stored-cross-site-scripting\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-5531 &#8211; WordPress Employee Directory &#8211; Stored Cross-Site Scripting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CVE ID : <\/strong>CVE-2025-5531<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Published : <\/strong> June 4, 2025, 4:15 a.m. | 16\u00a0minutes ago<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Description : <\/strong>The Employee Directory \u2013 Staff Listing &amp; Team Directory Plugin for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin&#8217;s &#8217;emd_mb_meta&#8217; 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.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Severity:<\/strong> 6.4 | MEDIUM<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVisit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-5531 Published : June 4, 2025, 4:15 a.m. | 16\u00a0minutes ago Description : The Employee Directory \u2013 Staff Listing &amp; Team Directory Plugin for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin&#8217;s &#8217;emd_mb_meta&#8217; shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 4.5.0 due to insufficient input sanitization &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}