CVE-2025-10487

Advanced Ads <= 2.0.12 - Unauthenticated Limited Code Execution

2025-10-31 00:00
mikemyers

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 2.0.13
Affected Plugin
Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense
Affected Version
<= 2.0.12
CVSS
7.3High
Weakness type
CWE-94 · Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
CVE
CVE-2025-10487
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At a glance

CVE-2025-10487 is a high-severity Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') vulnerability in the Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.0.12. It carries a CVSS score of 7.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.0.13; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed October 2025, reported by mikemyers.

Vulnerability Overview

The Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.12 via the select_one() function. This is due to the endpoint not properly restricting access to the AJAX endpoint or limiting the functions that can be called to safe functions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to call arbitrary functions beginning with get_the_ like get_the_excerpt which can make information exposure possible.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense <= 2.0.12 carries this weakness at select_one(), and reaching it takes no account at all. Code injection means input from a request reaches a language construct that evaluates code, so the attacker's text is executed rather than treated as data.

The injected code runs with the web server's privileges, giving the attacker the same access to the database and filesystem as WordPress itself. For Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense the fix is 2.0.13: builds <= 2.0.12 are affected, anything from 2.0.13 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.0.13, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

Requests carrying this pattern arrive without a session, so nothing upstream of the firewall gets a chance to reject them: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. Classes like this one can leave something behind, so the staged malware scanner is the second half: it looks for dropped files and modified code rather than for the request that created them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense 2.0.13 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-10487https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3efe6b81-72db-4419-92a3-26e22ebf46e8https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-10487

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