vulnerability
WordPress Plugin: campus-directory: CVE-2025-5532: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N) | Jun 3, 2025 | Jun 4, 2025 | Apr 30, 2026 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jun 3, 2025
Added
Jun 4, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026
Description
The Campus Directory – Faculty, Staff and 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.
Solution
campus-directory-plugin-cve-2025-5532
References
Rapid7 Labs
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