CVE-2025-53586
Published: 06 November 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-53586 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 30.3th 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-2025-53586 is a Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability (CWE-502) in the NooTheme WeMusic WordPress theme (noo-wemusic), which allows Object Injection. This issue affects the theme from unknown initial versions through version 1.9.1.
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). Low-privileged authenticated users, such as standard WordPress contributors, can exploit it over the network with low complexity and no user interaction, achieving high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability through object injection.
Patchstack documents this PHP Object Injection vulnerability in their database entry for the WordPress WeMusic theme version 1.9.1, available at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Theme/noo-wemusic/vulnerability/wordpress-wemusic-theme-1-9-1-php-object-injection-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-37989
Vulnerability details
Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in NooTheme WeMusic noo-wemusic allows Object Injection.This issue affects WeMusic: from n/a through <= 1.9.1.
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Related Threats
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Why these techniques?
The vulnerability is a critical deserialization flaw (CWE-502) in a public-facing WordPress theme, enabling unauthenticated remote object injection and site compromise, directly mapping to exploitation of public-facing applications.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly addresses the CVE by requiring timely identification, reporting, and patching of the deserialization flaw in the WeMusic WordPress theme.
Prevents object injection by enforcing validation of untrusted inputs before deserialization in the vulnerable theme.
Enables proactive detection of the PHP object injection vulnerability through vulnerability scanning of WordPress themes.