Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-67979

CriticalRCE

Published: 20 February 2026

Published
20 February 2026
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0037 28.7th percentile
Risk Priority 70 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2025-67979 is a critical-severity Code Injection (CWE-94) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 9.9 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 28.7th 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-2025-67979 is an Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') vulnerability, classified under CWE-94, in the WesternDeal WPForms Google Sheet Connector plugin (gsheetconnector-wpforms). This issue affects all versions of the plugin from n/a through 4.0.1. The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.9 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H), indicating critical severity due to its potential for severe impacts across the confidentiality, integrity, and availability triads.

An attacker with low privileges, such as an authenticated WordPress user, can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network with low complexity and no user interaction required. Exploitation changes the scope (S:C) and enables remote code execution on the affected system, granting high-level impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/gsheetconnector-wpforms/vulnerability/wordpress-wpforms-google-sheet-connector-plugin-4-0-1-remote-code-execution-rce-vulnerability?_s_id=cve details this as a remote code execution vulnerability specifically in WPForms Google Sheet Connector version 4.0.1.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

A05:2025 Injection

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') vulnerability in WesternDeal WPForms Google Sheet Connector gsheetconnector-wpforms allows Code Injection.This issue affects WPForms Google Sheet Connector: from n/a through <= 4.0.1.

CWE(s)
CWE-94

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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T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter Execution
Adversaries may abuse command and script interpreters to execute commands, scripts, or binaries.
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Why these techniques?

Code injection vulnerability in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables remote exploitation of the web application (T1190) resulting in arbitrary code/command execution on the server (T1059).

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

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Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

Information input validation directly prevents code injection by checking and sanitizing user inputs before they are used to generate code in the WPForms Google Sheet Connector plugin.

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match
prevent

Flaw remediation requires timely patching of the vulnerable plugin versions up to 4.0.1, eliminating the specific code injection vulnerability.

RA-5 Vulnerability Monitoring and Scanning partial match
detect

Vulnerability monitoring and scanning identifies the presence of this known code injection flaw in WordPress plugins like gsheetconnector-wpforms, enabling proactive remediation.

References