CVE-2025-14937
Published: 09 January 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-14937 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 10.6th 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-2025-14937 is a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability, classified under CWE-79, in the Frontend Admin by DynamiApps plugin for WordPress. It affects all versions up to and including 3.28.23. The issue stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the 'acff' parameter handled by the 'frontend_admin/forms/update_field' AJAX action.
Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability over the network with low complexity and no user interaction required. By injecting arbitrary web scripts via the vulnerable endpoint, attackers can have those scripts stored on pages and executed in users' browsers whenever those pages are accessed, potentially leading to low confidentiality and integrity impacts with a changed scope, as reflected in the CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.2 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N).
Advisories reference a patch in WordPress plugin trac changeset 3427236 at https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3427236/acf-frontend-form-element. Further details on the vulnerability are provided in the Wordfence threat intelligence report at https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/46c988ff-9cc5-4f2b-a3dd-06eaef5a7919?source=cve.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-1778
Vulnerability details
The Frontend Admin by DynamiApps plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'acff' parameter in the 'frontend_admin/forms/update_field' AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 3.28.23 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This…
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makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
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Related Threats
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Why these techniques?
Stored XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin enables unauthenticated remote exploitation of the application (T1190) and direct execution of attacker-supplied JavaScript in the browser (T1059.007).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly requires validation of the 'acff' input parameter before processing in the AJAX action, blocking script injection at the root cause.
Mandates output filtering/escaping of stored content so injected scripts cannot execute in user browsers when pages are rendered.
Provides mechanisms to detect and block malicious script code before storage or execution within the web application.