How severe is CVE-2025-14154?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

XSS in Wordplus Better Messages – Live Chat, Chat Rooms, Real-Time Messaging & Private

CVE-2025-14154

The Better Messages – Live Chat for WordPress, BuddyPress, PeepSo, Ultimate Member, BuddyBoss plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via guest display name in all versions up to, and including, 2.10.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.002 (7.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Wordplus Better Messages – Live Chat, Chat Rooms, Real-time Messaging & Private — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-14154?: CVE-2025-14154 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wordplus Better Messages – Live Chat, Chat Rooms, Real-Time Messaging & Private, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2025-12-17.
How severe is CVE-2025-14154?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.