Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-60245

CriticalRCE

Published: 06 November 2025

Published
06 November 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 27.4th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-60245 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 27.4th 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-2025-60245 is a Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability (CWE-502) in the WP User Manager WordPress plugin (wp-user-manager), enabling Object Injection. The issue affects the plugin from unspecified initial versions through 2.9.12. Published on 2025-11-06, 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), marking it as critical due to its potential for severe impact.

Unauthenticated remote attackers can exploit this vulnerability over the network with low complexity and no user interaction required. Successful exploitation allows high-impact compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, typically through arbitrary object instantiation during deserialization of untrusted data.

Mitigation details are provided in advisories such as the Patchstack database entry at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/wp-user-manager/vulnerability/wordpress-wp-user-manager-plugin-2-9-12-php-object-injection-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in WP User Manager WP User Manager wp-user-manager allows Object Injection.This issue affects WP User Manager: from n/a through <= 2.9.12.

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?

Unauthenticated remote exploitation of a public-facing WordPress plugin vulnerability via deserialization/object injection directly maps to T1190: Exploit Public-Facing Application.

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

Directly remediates the deserialization of untrusted data flaw in WP User Manager plugin through timely patching, preventing object injection exploitation.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

Validates untrusted input data before deserialization, blocking malicious serialized objects that enable object injection in the vulnerable plugin.

RA-5 Vulnerability Monitoring and Scanning good match
detect

Scans for vulnerabilities like CVE-2025-60245 in the WP User Manager plugin, identifying the deserialization flaw for prompt remediation.

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