CVE-2025-14452
Published: 19 February 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-14452 is a high-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Wordpress (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 7.2 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 35.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-15 (Information Output Filtering).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-14452 is a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the WP Customer Reviews plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions up to and including 3.7.5. The flaw stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping of the 'wpcr3_fname' parameter, allowing arbitrary web scripts to be injected into pages. It is classified under CWE-79 with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.2 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N) and was published on 2026-02-19.
Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability over the network with low complexity and no privileges required. By crafting malicious payloads in the 'wpcr3_fname' parameter, they can trick users into executing injected scripts through actions like clicking a crafted link, potentially leading to low confidentiality and integrity impacts with changed scope.
References point to specific code locations in the plugin's tagged 3.7.4 and trunk versions, including lines 205 and 835 in wp-customer-reviews-3.php, as well as changeset 3417719, indicating areas of vulnerable handling and likely remediation in newer code. Security practitioners should update to versions beyond 3.7.5 where input validation has been addressed.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-207918
Vulnerability details
The WP Customer Reviews plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'wpcr3_fname' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.7.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers…
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to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of the web app (T1190) and arbitrary JavaScript execution in victim browsers via crafted links (T1059.007).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly requires validation of untrusted input such as the wpcr3_fname parameter before processing, preventing the reflected XSS payload from being accepted.
Mandates filtering or encoding of information output to users, addressing the missing output escaping that allows injected scripts to execute in the victim's browser.
Provides mechanisms to detect and block malicious code/scripts delivered via web parameters, offering secondary protection against successful XSS exploitation.