CVE-2026-1279

Description

The Employee Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'form_title' parameter in the `search_employee_directory` shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.1 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 2026-01-20 | Published 2026-02-06 | Updated 2026-02-06 | Assigner Wordfence

Problem types

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

Product status

Timeline

Credits

Djaidja Moundjid finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-6244-4776-be3c-afe3a28a2b8a?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...r/mo-empdir-search_handler.php

wordpress.org/plugins/employee-staff-directory

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...r/mo-empdir-search_handler.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...620%40employee-staff-directory

cve.org (CVE-2026-1279)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-1279)

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