WordPress Employee Spotlight Plugin <= 5.1.1 - PHP Object Injection Vulnerability

published 2025-08-28 14 mo ago modified 2026-09-26 44 d ago also EUVD-2025-25983

cvss: 8.1; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.3%; EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 25%
public exploits: 0; none known

Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in emarket-design Employee Spotlight employee-spotlight allows Object Injection.This issue affects Employee Spotlight: from n/a through <= 5.1.1.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

emarket-design Employee Spotlight 5.1.2

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 14 mo ago (2025-08-28)

Exploit prediction

0.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 25% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	8.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

emarket-design Employee Spotlight

Classification

Weakness

CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Technology feeds

WordPress rss critical rss

References

patchstack.com /database/Wordpress/Plugin/employee-spotlight/vulnerability/wordpress-employee-spotlight-plugin-5-1-1-php-obje
vdb-entry

Sources

CVE List CVE-2025-53583
NVD CVE-2025-53583

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Summary