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CVE-2025-14154: Better Messages – Live Chat for WordPress, BuddyPress, PeepSo, Ultimate Member, BuddyBoss <= 2.10.2 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-12-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

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.

Affected products

• wordplus Better Messages – Live Chat, Chat Rooms, Real-Time Messaging & Private Messages: through 2.10.2

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3420771/bp-better-messages/trunk/inc/guests.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d68bbf0d-72e9-4295-a1e1-4abeb36cae1b?source=cve

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