Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Feb 6, 2026· Updated Apr 15, 2026
CVE-2026-1279
CVE-2026-1279
Description
The Employee Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'form_title' parameter in the search_employee_directory shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.1 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.
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Affected products
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- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: <=1.2.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
5- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/employee-staff-directory/tags/1.2.1/handler/mo-empdir-search_handler.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/employee-staff-directory/trunk/handler/mo-empdir-search_handler.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changesetnvd
- wordpress.org/plugins/employee-staff-directorynvd
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f0d3b54c-6244-4776-be3c-afe3a28a2b8anvd
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