CVE-2025-5532: Faculty Staff and Student Directory Plugin – Campus Directory <= 1.9.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Description
The Campus Directory – Faculty, Staff & Student Directory Plugin for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'emd_mb_meta' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.
Classification
CVE ID: CVE-2025-5532
CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS Base Score: 6.4
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Problem Types
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')Affected Products
Vendor: emarket-design
Product: Campus Directory – Faculty, Staff & Student Directory Plugin for WordPress
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
EPSS Score: 0.03% (probability of being exploited)
EPSS Percentile: 6.44% (scored less or equal to compared to others)
EPSS Date: 2025-06-04 (when was this score calculated)
References
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5532https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/20301685-9b76-4dd3-8185-3a4463f3201b?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3303022%40campus-directory&new=3303022%40campus-directory&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=