Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-60232

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-2025-60232 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 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).

Deeper analysis

CVE-2025-60232 is a Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability (CWE-502) in the KBx Pro Ultimate knowledgebase-helpdesk-pro WordPress plugin developed by quantumcloud. This flaw enables Object Injection and affects all versions of the plugin up to and including 8.0.5. The vulnerability has 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 high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Unauthenticated remote attackers can exploit this vulnerability over the network with low complexity and no user interaction required. Successful exploitation allows attackers to inject arbitrary objects via deserialization of untrusted data, potentially leading to severe consequences such as remote code execution, data manipulation, or denial of service, as reflected in the high impact metrics.

The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/knowledgebase-helpdesk-pro/vulnerability/wordpress-kbx-pro-ultimate-plugin-8-0-5-php-object-injection-vulnerability?_s_id=cve provides details on this PHP Object Injection vulnerability in KBx Pro Ultimate versions up to 8.0.5. Security practitioners should consult this reference for mitigation guidance, such as updating to a patched version if available.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in quantumcloud KBx Pro Ultimate knowledgebase-helpdesk-pro allows Object Injection.This issue affects KBx Pro Ultimate: from n/a through <= 8.0.5.

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 an unauthenticated remote deserialization flaw in a public-facing WordPress plugin, directly enabling exploitation of public-facing applications for potential RCE.

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

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Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match
prevent

Flaw remediation directly addresses the deserialization vulnerability by requiring patches for KBx Pro Ultimate versions up to 8.0.5 to prevent object injection.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

Information input validation mandates checking untrusted data prior to deserialization, comprehensively mitigating CWE-502 object injection in the plugin.

SC-7 Boundary Protection partial match
preventdetect

Boundary protection at network interfaces enables web application firewalls to inspect and block incoming requests with malicious serialized payloads exploiting the vulnerability.

References