CVE-2025-53243
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BaseFortify

Publication date: 2025-08-28

Last updated on: 2026-04-28

Assigner: Patchstack

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.
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Published
2025-08-28
Last Modified
2026-04-28
Generated
2026-06-16
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2025-08-28
EPSS Evaluated
2026-06-14
NVD
CVE-2025-53243
EUVD
EUVD-2025-25997
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patchstack employee_directory *
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CWE ID Description
CWE-502 The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently ensuring that the resulting data will be valid.
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Impact Analysis

This vulnerability can have a severe impact, including unauthorized remote code execution, data manipulation, or denial of service. Because it allows object injection, an attacker could potentially take control of the affected system or disrupt its normal operation.

Executive Summary

This vulnerability is a Deserialization of Untrusted Data issue in the Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin for WordPress. It allows an attacker to perform Object Injection, which can lead to malicious code execution or other harmful actions by manipulating serialized data processed by the plugin.

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