Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.
Summary
CVE-2025-60234 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 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 44th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SA-11 (Developer Testing and Evaluation) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary
Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.
CVE-2025-60234 is a Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability (CWE-502) in the Single Property WordPress theme developed by designthemes. The flaw enables Object Injection and affects all versions of the theme up to and including 2.8.
The vulnerability carries 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), indicating high severity. An attacker with low privileges (such as a subscriber or contributor role) can exploit it remotely over the network with low complexity and no user interaction required, potentially resulting in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, such as arbitrary code execution or full system compromise via injected objects.
Patchstack has documented the issue in their vulnerability database, providing details on the PHP Object Injection flaw in Single Property theme version 2.8; security practitioners should consult https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Theme/single-property/vulnerability/wordpress-single-property-theme-2-8-php-object-injection-vulnerability?_s_id=cve for mitigation guidance, including updates if available beyond version 2.8.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-35399
Vulnerability Data
Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in designthemes Single Property single-property allows Object Injection.This issue affects Single Property: from n/a through <= 2.8.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Developer testing and evaluation can uncover deserialization flaws before deployment.
Input validation directly stops deserialization of untrusted data by ensuring inputs are valid before processing.
Engineering principles such as safe deserialization and input sanitization structurally prevent the weakness from being introduced.
Integrity verification tools can detect malformed or tampered serialized data after the fact.
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Security testing includes validation of deserialization routines and the use of untrusted data, reducing the likelihood that unsafe object reconstruction will be deployed.
Requiring vetted libraries, regular updates and SAST before release reduces the likelihood that deserialization logic will accept and act on attacker-controlled serialized objects.
Regular scanning of third-party libraries and timely patching reduce the likelihood that unsafe deserialization vulnerabilities remain active.