CVE-2025-27301
Published: 24 February 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-27301 is a high-severity Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CWE-502) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 7.2 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 27.9th 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 CM-11 (User-installed Software) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-27301 is a Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability (CWE-502) in the WordPress plugin NHR Options Table Manager (nhrrob-options-table-manager) developed by Nazmul Hasan Robin. The flaw enables Object Injection and affects all versions from n/a through 1.1.2. Published on 2025-02-24, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.2 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).
The vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker with high privileges, such as an authenticated WordPress administrator. Exploitation occurs over the network with low complexity and requires no user interaction. Successful attacks result in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability on the affected system.
Advisories and mitigation guidance are detailed in the Patchstack database at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/nhrrob-options-table-manager/vulnerability/wordpress-nhrrob-options-table-manager-plugin-1-1-2-deserialization-of-untrusted-data-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-4350
Vulnerability details
Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in Nazmul Hasan Robin NHR Options Table Manager nhrrob-options-table-manager allows Object Injection.This issue affects NHR Options Table Manager: from n/a through <= 1.1.2.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
The deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability in the public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of the web application (T1190) by an authenticated administrator over the network, resulting in object injection with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly remediates the deserialization of untrusted data flaw in the NHR Options Table Manager WordPress plugin by patching to a fixed version or removing it.
Validates untrusted inputs to the plugin to prevent object injection via unsafe deserialization.
Restricts or prohibits installation and use of vulnerable user-installed WordPress plugins like NHR Options Table Manager.