CVE-2025-53243 Deserialization in Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin for WordPress
An attacker can exploit PHP object injection in the Employee Directory plugin to potentially execute arbitrary code on the WordPress site.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-53243?
CVE-2025-53243 is a high-severity unsafe deserialization vulnerability in emarket-design Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin for WordPress, published on 28 Aug 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-502
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-53243?
How do I fix CVE-2025-53243?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-53243 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and only deserialise data from trusted sources or with an allow-list of types. More about Unsafe deserialization.
Is CVE-2025-53243 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-53243 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-qw3w-x3xf-gg83.