CVE-2025-8295

Summary

The Employee Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘noaccess_msg’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.5.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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 Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-79: CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical Impact: partial

References

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6d06d721-ab48-43ae-81d6-bd0b3177a7bf?source=cve
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/employee-directory/#developers
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/employee-directory/tags/4.5.1/includes/emd-form-builder-lite/emd-form-frontend.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3336753/

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