The Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored
Source GCVE Database
Not known to be exploited · CVSS 6.4 Medium.
Data as of 29 Oct 2026, 23:38 UTC
- Affects
- all up to 5.1.2
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NExploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 1 Nov 2025
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponized: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors
A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 29 Oct 2026.
What to do
AI-suggested
Users should restrict Contributor-level access to trusted individuals and consider removing or disabling the plugin until a fix is available. Monitor the vendor's advisory channels for updates and apply patches promptly once released.
Description
The Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin for WordPress contains a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in all versions up to and including 5.1.2. This vulnerability arises from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping of social URLs. Authenticated users with Contributor-level access or higher can inject malicious scripts that execute when other users view the affected pages.
References
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12090 (opens in a new tab)
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3386767%40employee-spotlight&new=3386767%40employee-spotlight&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= (opens in a new tab)
- wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/45d7fe64-c51b-4801-a190-92396e5db27d?source=cve (opens in a new tab)