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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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-10-22 | Published 2025-11-01 | Updated 2025-11-03 | Assigner Wordfence




MEDIUM: 6.4CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Problem types

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Product status

Default status
unaffected

* (semver)
affected

Timeline

2025-10-22:Vendor Notified
2025-10-31:Disclosed

Credits

Athiwat Tiprasaharn finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-c51b-4801-a190-92396e5db27d?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...potlight&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

cve.org (CVE-2025-12090)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-12090)

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