What is CVE-2025-53243?

CVE-2025-53243 is a high-severity vulnerability in Emarket-Design Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Plugin For WordPress, classified under Deserialization of Untrusted Data. CVSS score: 8.1/10. Published 2025-08-28.

How severe is CVE-2025-53243?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.1 out of 10.

Deserialization in Emarket-Design Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Plugin For WordPress

CVE-2025-53243

Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in emarket-design Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin for WordPress employee-directory allows Object Injection.This issue affects Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin for WordPress: from n/a through <= 4.5.5.

Vulnerability class: Insecure Deserialization

EPSS: 0.003 (22.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.1 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Emarket-design Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Plugin For Wordpress — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-502 — Deserialization of Untrusted Data

References

audit@patchstack.com (vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-53243?: CVE-2025-53243 is a high-severity vulnerability in Emarket-Design Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Plugin For WordPress, classified under Deserialization of Untrusted Data. CVSS score: 8.1/10. Published 2025-08-28.
How severe is CVE-2025-53243?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.1 out of 10.