CVE-2025-60213
Published: 22 October 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-60213 is a critical-severity Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CWE-502) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 26.7th 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-2025-60213 is a Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability (CWE-502) in the Whitebox-Studio Scape WordPress theme, enabling PHP Object Injection. The issue affects Scape versions from unknown initial release through 1.5.13. Published on 2025-10-22, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), indicating critical severity due to its potential for severe impacts across confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Remote attackers require no privileges or user interaction to exploit this vulnerability over the network with low complexity. Successful exploitation via untrusted data deserialization can lead to object injection, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code, manipulate data, or cause denial of service, depending on the injected objects and server configuration.
The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Theme/scape/vulnerability/wordpress-scape-theme-1-5-13-php-object-injection-vulnerability?_s_id=cve provides details on this PHP Object Injection vulnerability in the Scape WordPress theme, including recommended mitigations such as updating to a patched version where available.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-35413
Vulnerability details
Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in Whitebox-Studio Scape scape allows Object Injection.This issue affects Scape: from n/a through <= 1.5.13.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
The vulnerability is a critical deserialization flaw in a public-facing WordPress theme, enabling remote unauthenticated arbitrary code execution, directly mapping to exploitation of public-facing applications.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly mitigates the deserialization vulnerability by requiring timely patching of the affected Scape WordPress theme.
Prevents object injection by validating untrusted data inputs prior to deserialization in the Scape theme.
Identifies the CVE-2025-60213 vulnerability through vulnerability scanning of WordPress themes and components.