The Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Social URLs in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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.
Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin <= 5.1.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Problem type
Affected products
emarket-design
<= 5.1.2 - AFFECTED
References
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/45d7fe64-c51b-4801-a190-92396e5db27d?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3386767%40employee-spotlight&new=3386767%40employee-spotlight&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
GitHub Security Advisories
GHSA-x3vr-5276-4vwg
The Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin plugin for WordPress is...
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x3vr-5276-4vwgThe Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Social URLs in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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.
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12090
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3386767%40employee-spotlight&new=3386767%40employee-spotlight&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/45d7fe64-c51b-4801-a190-92396e5db27d?source=cve
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x3vr-5276-4vwg
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