vulnerability
WordPress Plugin: employee-spotlight: CVE-2025-53583: Deserialization of Untrusted Data
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Aug 25, 2025 | Sep 4, 2025 | Apr 30, 2026 |
Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Aug 25, 2025
Added
Sep 4, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026
Description
The Employee Spotlight plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in versions up to, and including, 5.1.1 via deserialization of untrusted input. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject a PHP Object. No known POP chain is present in the vulnerable software. If a POP chain is present via an additional plugin or theme installed on the target system, it could allow the attacker to delete arbitrary files, retrieve sensitive data, or execute code.
Solution
employee-spotlight-plugin-cve-2025-53583
References
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-53583
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/23ece2d6-5eff-4897-ab4b-56443b77fdf0?source=api-prod
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2025-25983
- CVE-2025-53583
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2025-53583
- CWE-502
- EUVD-EUVD-2025-25983
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