CVE-2025-5531: Emarket-Design Employee Directory – Staff & Team Directory

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Emarket-Design Employee Directory – Staff & Team Directory: up to and including 4.5.0

Published 2025-06-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.