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Vulnerability · CVE-2025-53243

Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in emarket-design Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin for WordPress employee-directory allows Object Injectio

Published Aug 28, 2025 · catalog updated Oct 18, 2026 · Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin for WordPress

Last checked Oct 26, 2026. A connected source was read within the last 7 days.

Check if you run it

No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2025-53243. EPSS is 0.33%. Act only if a listed version of Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin for WordPress is installed.

Gaps on this record

  • No vendor fix or required action is stored. Compare the linked advisory before you change production.
Severity
High8.1
Known exploitation
Not in CISA/VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
0.33%
Remediation
Version ranges on file
Affected products
stated named in the record · vendor emarket-design Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin for WordPress 0 ≤4.5.5

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.

Are you affected?

Enter the version you run. The result uses only the ranges stored on this record.

The check returns affected, not affected, or incomplete. It does not guess a version that is missing from the record.

  • stated named in the record<= 4.5.5
  • vendor emarket-design Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin for WordPress 0 ≤4.5.50 ≤4.5.5

How to fix CVE-2025-53243

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2025-53243. EPSS is 0.33%. Act only if a listed version of Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin for WordPress is installed.

Which versions are affected?

Compare what you have installed with named in the record <= 4.5.5; emarket-design Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin for WordPress 0 ≤4.5.5 0 ≤4.5.5. Compare the installed version with the linked vendor advisory before you change production.

What should an analyst verify?

CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data. EPSS 0.33%. There is no CISA KEV listing. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Technology hubs

WordPress security

Code

The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.

Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. Aug 28, 2025 · NIST NVD

    Detected

    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.

  2. Oct 18, 2026 · NIST NVD

    Updated

    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.

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2025-53243

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2025-53243

    30-day exploitation probability 0.33%

    first.org
  • EUVDVulnerability recordEUVD-2025-25997

    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

    euvd.enisa.europa.eu
  • NIST NVDVulnerability recordCVE-2025-53243

    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

    nvd.nist.gov

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 26, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.

  • FIRST EPSSOct 23, 2026
  • CVE.orgOct 21, 2026
  • EUVDOct 21, 2026
  • NIST NVDOct 18, 2026