High severity · published Aug 28, 2025
CVE-2025-53243
WordPress Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory plugin for WordPress plugin <= 4.5.5 - PHP Object Injection vulnerability
8.1
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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 vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 25% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
ED
Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin for WordPress · emarket-design
through 4.5.5 · source: vendor
Affected product
ED
Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin for WordPress
emarket-design
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53243
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-53243
patchstack.com
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=cve