CVE-2025-53583
WordPress Employee Spotlight Plugin <= 5.1.1 - PHP Object Injection Vulnerability
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.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- High
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
WordPress Employee Spotlight Plugin <= 5.1.1 - PHP Object Injection Vulnerability
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.
- Record
CVE-2025-53583- CVSS 3.1
- 8.1 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-502
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2025-25983
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.
- Record
EUVD-2025-25983- CVSS 3.1
- 8.1 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-36p7-pvq8-jjmx
Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in emarket-design Employee Spotlight allows...
Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in emarket-design Employee Spotlight allows Object Injection. This issue affects Employee Spotlight: from n/a through 5.1.1.
- Record
GHSA-36p7-pvq8-jjmx- CVSS 3.1
- 8.1 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-502
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
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.
- Record
CVE-2025-53583- CVSS 3.1
- 8.1 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-502
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| first indexed | CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2025-53583 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 8.1) in Emarket-design Employee Spotlight, published August 28, 2025. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.33%, the 25th percentile. No source names a fixed version.
References
patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/employee-spotlight/vulnerability/wordpress-employee-spotlight-plugin-5-1-1-php-object-injection-vulnerability?_s_id=cve
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53583
github.com/advisories/GHSA-36p7-pvq8-jjmx