CVE-2025-23914
Published: 22 January 2025
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
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MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
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.