CVE-2025-3472
Published: 22 April 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-3472 is a medium-severity Code Injection (CWE-94) vulnerability in Oceanwp Ocean Extra. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 6.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
The Ocean Extra plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to and including 2.4.6. The flaw stems from insufficient input validation prior to invoking the do_shortcode function, which is reachable via an unauthenticated action when the WooCommerce plugin is also present. This issue is tracked as CWE-94 and carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 6.5.
Unauthenticated attackers can exploit the vulnerability over the network to execute arbitrary shortcodes, resulting in limited impacts to confidentiality and integrity but no direct availability effects. Successful exploitation requires WooCommerce to be installed and activated on the target site.
Public references include the vulnerable code path in the plugin repository, a changeset that addresses the issue, and a detailed advisory from Wordfence that outlines the conditions and scope of the flaw.
The associated EPSS score rose from a low baseline to a peak of 0.1994 before settling at the current value of 0.1195, indicating emerging exploitation interest after disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-12293
Vulnerability details
The Ocean Extra plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.6. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before…
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running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes when WooCommerce is also installed and activated.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Makes persistent code injection into loaded programs impossible when the executable image itself resides on hardware-protected read-only media.
Dynamically generated code can be produced and executed inside the isolated chamber, preventing host compromise from code-injection payloads.
Validates inputs used in dynamic code generation to block injected directives.
Directly prevents execution of attacker-supplied code written into data memory regions.