The Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Social URLs in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.2 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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00043.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions
emarket-design Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin unaffected
Version Status Constraints
* affected ≤ 5.1.2

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References
Link Providers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3386767%40employee-spotlight&new=3386767%40employee-spotlight&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/45d7fe64-c51b-4801-a190-92396e5db27d?source=cve cve-icon cve-icon
History

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 10:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Emarket-design
Emarket-design employee Spotlight
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress
Vendors & Products Emarket-design
Emarket-design employee Spotlight
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 05:45:00 +0000

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Description The Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Social URLs in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.2 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.
Title Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin <= 5.1.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2025-11-03T13:31:21.726Z

Reserved: 2025-10-22T18:31:33.568Z

Link: CVE-2025-12090

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Updated: 2025-11-03T13:10:48.263Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-11-01T06:15:40.340

Modified: 2025-11-04T15:41:31.450

Link: CVE-2025-12090

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Updated: 2025-11-03T10:43:46Z

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