Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-52737

HighRCE

Published: 22 October 2025

Published
22 October 2025
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0011 29.5th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-52737 is a high-severity Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CWE-502) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 29.5th 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 RA-5 (Vulnerability Monitoring and Scanning) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation).

Deeper analysis

CVE-2025-52737 is a Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability (CWE-502) in the WP Store Locator WordPress plugin by Tijmen Smit, which allows Object Injection. The issue affects the plugin from unknown initial versions through 2.2.260, as published on 2025-10-22.

The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), indicating high severity. It can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity by an authenticated attacker possessing low privileges, without requiring user interaction and with unchanged scope. Exploitation enables high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/wp-store-locator/vulnerability/wordpress-wp-store-locator-plugin-2-2-260-php-object-injection-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in Tijmen Smit WP Store Locator wp-store-locator allows Object Injection.This issue affects WP Store Locator: from n/a through <= 2.2.260.

CWE(s)
CWE-502

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?

CVE-2025-52737 is a deserialization of untrusted data (PHP Object Injection) vulnerability in a public-facing WordPress plugin, exploitable over the network by low-privileged users, directly mapping to T1190: Exploit Public-Facing Application.

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

Timely flaw remediation directly patches the deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability in WP Store Locator plugin versions through 2.2.260, preventing object injection exploitation.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

Information input validation checks untrusted data before deserialization, blocking malicious serialized objects that enable object injection in the plugin.

RA-5 Vulnerability Monitoring and Scanning good match
detect

Vulnerability scanning identifies the presence of CVE-2025-52737 in deployed WP Store Locator plugins, enabling proactive remediation.

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