CVE-2025-7721

Critical

Published: 03 October 2025

Published

03 October 2025

Modified

15 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 0.0071 72.7th percentile

Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-7721 is a critical-severity PHP Remote File Inclusion (CWE-98) vulnerability in Wordpress (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 27.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation).

Deeper analysis

CVE-2025-7721 is a Local File Inclusion (LFI) vulnerability (CWE-98) affecting the JoomSport – for Sports: Team & League, Football, Hockey & more plugin for WordPress in all versions up to and including 5.7.3. The flaw exists in the handling of the 'task' parameter within the plugin's controller class, specifically around line 74 in class-jsport-controller.php. It has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), indicating critical severity due to its potential for high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts.

Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network with low complexity and no privileges required. By manipulating the 'task' parameter, they can include and execute arbitrary .php files on the server, enabling PHP code execution. This allows bypassing access controls, obtaining sensitive data, or achieving remote code execution, particularly if .php files can be uploaded elsewhere on the system.

Mitigation details are available in plugin advisories and patches, including Wordfence threat intelligence at the referenced URL and the official fix in WordPress plugin changeset 3371353. Security practitioners should update to a patched version beyond 5.7.3 and review the source code diff at the provided Trac links for implementation specifics.

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-32537

Vulnerability details

The JoomSport – for Sports: Team & League, Football, Hockey & more plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local File Inclusion in all versions up to, and including, 5.7.3 via the task parameter. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers…

to include and execute arbitrary .php files on the server, allowing the execution of any PHP code in those files. This can be used to bypass access controls, obtain sensitive data, or achieve code execution in cases where .php file types can be uploaded and included.

CWE(s): CWE-98

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?

The vulnerability is a critical unauthenticated LFI in a public-facing WordPress plugin, enabling remote exploitation for arbitrary PHP file inclusion and execution, directly mapping to T1190: Exploit Public-Facing Application.

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