Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-26961

High

Published: 15 March 2025

Published
15 March 2025
Modified
23 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0006 19.9th percentile
Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-26961 is a high-severity Missing Authorization (CWE-862) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 8.6 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 19.9th 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 AC-24 (Access Control Decisions) and AC-3 (Access Enforcement).

Deeper analysis

CVE-2025-26961 is a missing authorization vulnerability (CWE-862) in the FRESHFACE Fresh Framework WordPress plugin (fresh-framework). It enables accessing functionality not properly constrained by access control lists (ACLs). The vulnerability affects all versions from n/a through 1.70.0 inclusive.

Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), no privileges required (PR:N), and no user interaction (UI:N). Exploitation yields low confidentiality impact (C:L), high integrity impact (I:H), low availability impact (A:L), and unchanged scope (S:U), resulting in a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.6.

Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/fresh-framework/vulnerability/wordpress-fresh-framework-plugin-1-70-0-unauthenticated-broken-access-control-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Missing Authorization vulnerability in FRESHFACE Fresh Framework fresh-framework allows Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs.This issue affects Fresh Framework: from n/a through <= 1.70.0.

CWE(s)
CWE-862

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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Why these techniques?

Missing authorization (CWE-862) in public-facing WordPress plugin enables remote unauthenticated exploitation of the application for initial access.

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

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Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

AC-3 Access Enforcement good match
prevent

Directly enforces approved authorizations for access to system resources, preventing exploitation of functionality not constrained by ACLs.

AC-6 Least Privilege good match
prevent

Employs least privilege to restrict access to only necessary functions, mitigating unauthorized unauthenticated access.

AC-24 Access Control Decisions good match
prevent

Requires capability to make access control decisions prior to granting access, addressing missing authorization checks in the framework.

References