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CVE-2026-1279

Employee Directory <= 1.2.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'form_title' Shortcode Attribute

Published: Feb 6, 2026Updated: Feb 6, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-79
NVD MITRE
6.4CVSSMEDIUM
EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 85.9%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
No Fix Available
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Description

The Employee Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'form_title' parameter in the `search_employee_directory` shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:LUI:NS:CC:LI:LA:N
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:LPrivileges Required
Low
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:CScope
Changed
Impact
C:LConfidentiality
Low
I:LIntegrity
Low
A:NAvailability
None
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Weaknesses

CWE-79

Affected Products

Employee Directory – Staff Directory and Listingcyberlord92
Mixed
Security Products / identity-access-mgmt
cyberlord92individual-devSecurity Productsaka active directory integration / ldap integration, miniorange otp verification with firebase, oauth single sign on – sso (oauth client)

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Exploitability

No known exploits, KEV entries, or remediation guidance available for this vulnerability yet.

MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
Execution
Initial Access
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References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/employee-staff-directory/tags/1.2.1/handler/mo-empdir-search_handler.php#L29
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/employee-staff-directory/trunk/handler/mo-empdir-search_handler.php#L29
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3448620%40employee-staff-directory&new=3448620%40employee-staff-directory
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
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Timeline

Published
Feb 6, 2026
Last Updated
Feb 6, 2026

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