{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-53243 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2025-53243 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2025-53243 is a high-severity unsafe deserialization vulnerability in emarket-design Employee Directory – Staff Listing \u0026 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."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-53243 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-53243 is a high-severity unsafe deserialization vulnerability in emarket-design Employee Directory – Staff Listing \u0026 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.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-53243 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: emarket-design Employee Directory – Staff Listing \u0026 Team Directory Plugin for WordPress. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-53243/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-53243/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-53243","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-53243/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-53243","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-qw3w-x3xf-gg83"],"analysis":{"component_type":"cms_plugin","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"WordPress plugin","requires_auth":"none","summary":"An attacker can exploit PHP object injection in the Employee Directory plugin to potentially execute arbitrary code on the WordPress site.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"deserialization"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Patchstack","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":8.1,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-502","name":"Deserialization of Untrusted Data"}],"description":"Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in emarket-design Employee Directory – Staff Listing \u0026 Team Directory Plugin for WordPress employee-directory allows Object Injection.This issue affects Employee Directory – Staff Listing \u0026 Team Directory Plugin for WordPress: from n/a through \u003c= 4.5.5.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Deserialization in Employee Directory – Staff Listing \u0026 Team Directory Plugin for WordPress","id":"CVE-2025-53243","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"deserialization","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"WordPress Magazine Elite Theme \u003c= 1.2.4 - Local File Inclusion Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2025-53244"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"WordPress Seil Theme \u003c= 1.7.1 - Deserialization of untrusted data Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2025-53242"},"products":["Employee Directory – Staff Listing \u0026 Team Directory Plugin for WordPress"],"published":"2025-08-28","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-04-28","vendors":["emarket-design"]},"summary":"An attacker can exploit PHP object injection in the Employee Directory plugin to potentially execute arbitrary code on the WordPress site.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-53243/"}