CVE-2025-54742

HighRCE

Published: 28 August 2025

Published

28 August 2025

Modified

23 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 0.0016 36.8th percentile

Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-54742 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 36.8th 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-2025-54742 is a Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability (CWE-502) in the WpEvently WordPress plugin by magepeopleteam, also known as mage-eventpress. The flaw enables Object Injection and affects all versions from n/a through 4.4.8.

With 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), the vulnerability can be exploited remotely by an authenticated attacker with low privileges, such as a standard registered WordPress user. Exploitation requires low complexity and no user interaction, potentially allowing the attacker to achieve high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability through malicious object deserialization.

The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/mage-eventpress/vulnerability/wordpress-wpevently-plugin-4-4-8-php-object-injection-vulnerability?_s_id=cve provides further details on the vulnerability and mitigation recommendations.

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-25969

Vulnerability details

Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in magepeopleteam WpEvently mage-eventpress allows Object Injection.This issue affects WpEvently: from n/a through <= 4.4.8.

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?

Unsafe PHP deserialization (object injection) in a public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables remote exploitation by an authenticated attacker, matching T1190.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1