CVE-2025-53583

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

State: Published
Severity: 8.1 High
Published: Aug 28, 2025
Updated: Apr 28, 2026
Reserved: Jul 3, 2025

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.1 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	Patchstack

Weaknesses

CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Employee Spotlightemarket-design	5.1.1 and earlierAffectedfrom 5.1.2Not affected

References

https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/employee-spotlight/vulnerability/wordpress-employee-spotlight-plugin-5-1-1-php-object-injection-vulnerability?_s_id=cvevdb-entry

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