CVE-2025-53243 - CVE House

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Status published High CVE-2025-53243

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

8.1 CVSS

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

Martino Spagnuolo (r3verii) | Patchstack Bug Bounty Program

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

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Affected Vendor

emarket-design

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Affected Software

Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin for WordPress

Vulnerable Versions:

0

Timeline

Official Publish: August 28th, 2025

Last Modified: April 28th, 2026

Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

T1505.003 Web Shell

T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

Command and Control

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation

Privilege Escalation