Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-23914

CriticalRCE

Published: 22 January 2025

Published
22 January 2025
Modified
23 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 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 35.2th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-23914 is a critical-severity Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CWE-502) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 35.2th 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-2 (Flaw Remediation).

Deeper analysis

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.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in muzaara Muzaara Google Ads Report muzaara-adwords-optimize-dashboard allows Object Injection.This issue affects Muzaara Google Ads Report: from n/a through <= 3.1.

CWE(s)
CWE-502

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

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.
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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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Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match
prevent

Directly remediates the deserialization of untrusted data flaw in the Muzaara Google Ads Report WordPress plugin by applying patches or updates to versions beyond 3.1.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

Validates untrusted input data before deserialization to block object injection exploits in the vulnerable plugin.

SI-3 Malicious Code Protection partial match
preventdetect

Deploys malicious code protection mechanisms to prevent or detect arbitrary code execution resulting from successful object injection.

References