Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-23914

Critical

Published: 22 January 2025

Published
22 January 2025
Modified
23 April 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0015 35.0th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.

Security Summary

CVE-2025-23914 is a Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability (CWE-502) in the Muzaara Google Ads Report WordPress plugin, identified as muzaara-adwords-optimize-dashboard. The flaw enables Object Injection and affects all versions from unknown initial release through 3.1 inclusive. Published on 2025-01-22, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8, indicating critical severity due to its network accessibility, low attack complexity, lack of required privileges or user interaction, and high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Unauthenticated remote attackers can exploit this vulnerability over the network without privileges or user interaction. Successful exploitation allows object injection, potentially enabling arbitrary code execution or other severe impacts aligned with the high confidentiality, integrity, and availability ratings in the CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/muzaara-adwords-optimize-dashboard/vulnerability/wordpress-muzaara-google-ads-report-plugin-3-1-php-object-injection-vulnerability?_s_id=cve details the PHP object injection issue in the plugin up to version 3.1.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-502

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
Why these techniques?

Deserialization/object injection vulnerability in public-facing WordPress plugin enables unauthenticated remote arbitrary code execution, directly mapping to exploitation of public-facing applications for initial access.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

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