CVE-2025-60214

CriticalRCE

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 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score 0.0010 26.7th percentile

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

Summary

CVE-2025-60214 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-2025-60214 is a Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability (CWE-502) in the BoldThemes Goldenblatt WordPress theme that allows Object Injection. Published on 2025-10-22, this issue affects Goldenblatt versions from n/a through less than 1.3.0.

The vulnerability 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 it can be exploited remotely by unauthenticated attackers with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. Successful exploitation enables high-impact compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, potentially allowing arbitrary code execution or other severe effects via injected objects.

The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Theme/goldenblatt/vulnerability/wordpress-goldenblatt-theme-1-2-1-php-object-injection-vulnerability?_s_id=cve details the vulnerability in the Goldenblatt theme, with mitigation achieved by updating to version 1.3.0 or later.

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-35412

Vulnerability details

Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in BoldThemes Goldenblatt goldenblatt allows Object Injection.This issue affects Goldenblatt: from n/a through < 1.3.0.

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?

The vulnerability is a high-severity deserialization flaw (CWE-502) in a public-facing WordPress theme, exploitable remotely by unauthenticated attackers without user interaction, enabling arbitrary code execution, which directly maps to T1190: Exploit Public-Facing Application.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0