Description
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.
Problem types
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Product status
* (semver)
Timeline
| 2025-10-22: | Vendor Notified |
| 2025-10-31: | Disclosed |
Credits
Athiwat Tiprasaharn
References
www.wordfence.com/...-c51b-4801-a190-92396e5db27d?source=cve
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...potlight&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=