CVE-2025-53243WordPress Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory plugin for WordPress plugin <= 4.5.5 - PHP Object Injection vulnerability
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No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.
Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in emarket-design Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin for WordPress employee-directory allows Object Injection.This issue affects Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin for WordPress: from n/a through <= 4.5.5.
- CVSS
- 8.1 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-502
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- Patchstack
- NVD analysis
- Deferred
- Record last updated
- Apr 28, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 18, 2026
Affected products
emarket-design Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin for WordPress emarket_design:employee_directory_staff_listing_and_team_directory_plugin_for_wordpress (from the name) | through 4.5.5 | CNA record |
References
- https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/employee-directory/vulnerability/wordpress-employee-directory-staff-listing-team-directory-plugin-for-wordpress-plugin-4-5-2-php-object-injection-vulnerability?_s_id=cvevdb-entry
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