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CVE-2025-12090VulnerabilityPublished

The Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored

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Authoritative record:CVE-2025-12090· Medium 6.4

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 6.4 Medium.

Data as of 29 Oct 2026, 23:38 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
6.4Medium
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
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:N

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 1 Nov 2025

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq 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.

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