CVE-2025-24601
Published: 27 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-24601 is a critical-severity Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CWE-502) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 46.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-24601 is a Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability (CWE-502) in the ThimPress FundPress WordPress plugin, enabling Object Injection. This issue affects FundPress versions from n/a through 2.0.6, as published on 2025-01-27.
The vulnerability carries 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 it can be exploited over the network by unauthenticated attackers requiring low complexity and no user interaction. Successful exploitation allows attackers to achieve high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability through object injection.
The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/fundpress/vulnerability/wordpress-fundpress-plugin-2-0-6-php-object-injection-vulnerability?_s_id=cve documents the vulnerability in the WordPress FundPress plugin version 2.0.6 and provides relevant mitigation guidance.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-3805
Vulnerability details
Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in ThimPress FundPress fundpress allows Object Injection.This issue affects FundPress: from n/a through <= 2.0.6.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
The CVE describes an unauthenticated remote deserialization/object injection vulnerability in a public-facing WordPress plugin, directly enabling exploitation of a web application as per T1190.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Remediating the deserialization flaw in vulnerable FundPress plugin versions <=2.0.6 by applying patches directly eliminates the object injection vulnerability.
Validating untrusted serialized input data before deserialization prevents reconstruction of malicious objects in the FundPress plugin.
Vulnerability scanning detects the presence of the exploitable FundPress plugin versions affected by CVE-2025-24601.