CVE-2025-60224

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-2025-60224 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-2025-60224 is a Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability (CWE-502) in the WordPress plugin Subscribe to Download by wpshuffle, which allows Object Injection. The issue affects all versions of the plugin from its initial release through 2.0.9.

With 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), the vulnerability can be exploited over the network by unauthenticated attackers requiring low complexity and no user interaction. Successful exploitation enables high-impact compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, potentially leading to arbitrary object instantiation and related attacks such as remote code execution.

The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/subscribe-to-download/vulnerability/wordpress-subscribe-to-download-plugin-2-0-9-php-object-injection-vulnerability?_s_id=cve provides details on the vulnerability in Subscribe to Download version 2.0.9 and guidance on mitigation.

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-35405

Vulnerability details

Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in wpshuffle Subscribe to Download subscribe-to-download allows Object Injection.This issue affects Subscribe to Download: from n/a through <= 2.0.9.

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 deserialization flaw in a public-facing WordPress plugin exploitable unauthenticated over the network, directly enabling exploitation of public-facing applications for potential RCE.

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