Vulnerability · Published Aug 28, 2025 · Assigned by Patchstack

CVE-2025-53243WordPress Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory plugin for WordPress plugin <= 4.5.5 - PHP Object Injection vulnerability

High 8.1

In plain English

A high-severity unsafe deserialization in Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin for WordPress from emarket-design. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 26% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)8.1High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 74.3% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
emarket-design	Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin for WordPress	0 – through 4.5.5

Weakness: CWE-502 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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=cve vdb-entry