Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-24690

High

Published: 26 March 2025

Published
26 March 2025
Modified
23 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0066 71.5th percentile
Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-24690 is a high-severity PHP Remote File Inclusion (CWE-98) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 8.1 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 28.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; 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-2025-24690 is an Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program vulnerability, specifically a PHP Local File Inclusion issue (CWE-98), in the Formality WordPress plugin developed by Michele Giorgi. This flaw affects all versions of the plugin from n/a through 1.5.7. Published on 2025-03-26, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.1 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), indicating high severity due to network accessibility and significant impacts despite requiring high attack complexity.

The vulnerability can be exploited by unauthenticated remote attackers (PR:N) over the network (AV:N) without user interaction (UI:N), though it demands high complexity (AC:H) and maintains unchanged scope (S:U). Successful exploitation enables high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts (C:H/I:H/A:H), allowing attackers to perform local file inclusion on the targeted system.

Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/formality/vulnerability/wordpress-formality-plugin-1-5-7-local-file-inclusion-vulnerability?_s_id=cve, which documents the vulnerability in the WordPress Formality plugin version 1.5.7.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program ('PHP Remote File Inclusion') vulnerability in Michele Giorgi Formality formality allows PHP Local File Inclusion.This issue affects Formality: from n/a through <= 1.5.7.

CWE(s)
CWE-98

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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T1005 Data from Local System Collection
Adversaries may search local system sources, such as file systems, configuration files, local databases, virtual machine files, or process memory, to find files of interest and sensitive data prior to Exfiltration.
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Why these techniques?

The CVE describes a remotely exploitable LFI vulnerability in a public-facing WordPress plugin, directly enabling T1190. The file inclusion mechanism facilitates reading arbitrary local files, mapping to T1005.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

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Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match
prevent

Directly requires timely identification, reporting, and correction of the PHP Local File Inclusion flaw in the Formality WordPress plugin, preventing exploitation through patching.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

Mandates validation of user-supplied filename inputs to PHP include/require statements, blocking malicious local file inclusion attempts.

CM-6 Configuration Settings partial match
prevent

Enforces restrictive PHP configuration settings like open_basedir to limit the directories accessible via improper file includes.

References