CVE-2025-3472 Ocean Extra <= 2.4.6 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution

What is CVE-2025-3472?

CVE-2025-3472 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in oceanwp Ocean Extra, published on 22 Apr 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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 running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes when WooCommerce is also installed and activated.

Weakness: CWE-94

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-3472?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Oceanwp Ocean Extra.

How do I fix CVE-2025-3472?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-3472 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2025-3472 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-3472 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Nuclei template.

Other vulnerabilities in oceanwp Ocean Extra

• CVE-2019-16250 Missing authorization in n/a High 7.5
• CVE-2022-3374 Ocean Extra < 2.0.5 - Admin+ PHP Objection Injection High 7.2
• CVE-2024-37489 WordPress Ocean Extra plugin <= 2.2.9 - Authenticated Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability Medium 6.5
• CVE-2023-0749 Ocean Extra < 2.1.3 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary Post Content Disclosure Medium 6.5
• CVE-2025-3457 Ocean Extra <= 2.4.6 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode Medium 6.4

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-g4fm-73wh-j3m8.