Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Aug 5, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026
CVE-2025-8295
CVE-2025-8295
Description
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 products
1Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
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References
4- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/employee-directory/tags/4.5.1/includes/emd-form-builder-lite/emd-form-frontend.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3336753/nvd
- wordpress.org/plugins/employee-directory/nvd
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6d06d721-ab48-43ae-81d6-bd0b3177a7bfnvd
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