Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-62881

Access Control

Published
27 October 2025
Modified
27 April 2026
CVSS Score v3.1 4.3
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0022 13th percentile
Risk Priority 35 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2025-62881 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization (CWE-862) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 4.3 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Local Groups (T1069.001); ranked at the 13th 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 AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and AC-24 (Access Control Decisions) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Missing Authorization vulnerability in WP Lab WP-Lister Lite for eBay wp-lister-for-ebay allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects WP-Lister Lite for eBay: from n/a through <= 3.8.3.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1069.001 Local Groups Discovery
Adversaries may attempt to find local system groups and permission settings.
T1078.003 Local Accounts Stealth
Adversaries may obtain and abuse credentials of a local account as a means of gaining Initial Access, Persistence, Privilege Escalation, or Defense Evasion.
Why these techniques?

Missing Authorization (CWE-862) in a WordPress plugin indicates the ability to access or manipulate resources without proper permission checks, which can enable local account discovery (T1069.001) and use of valid local accounts (T1078.003) to perform unauthorized actions.

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

CVEs Like This One

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CVE-2025-31736Shared CWE-862
CVE-2024-9109Shared CWE-862
CVE-2023-37887Shared CWE-862
CVE-2025-47688Shared CWE-862
CVE-2024-1732Shared CWE-862
CVE-2024-54269Shared CWE-862
CVE-2023-38475Shared CWE-862

Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)
  • AC-3 Access Enforcement
  • AC-6 Least Privilege
  • AC-24 Access Control Decisions
Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)
  • 5 hardening rules · 3 OS baselines
Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

prevent

Directly enforces authorization policy checks before allowing actions on the eBay lister plugin endpoints, blocking exploitation of the missing authorization flaw.

prevent

Limits privileges assigned to WordPress roles so that even absent authorization checks cannot be abused to perform high-impact operations.

prevent

Ensures access control decisions are made by a reference monitor rather than relying solely on the plugin's incomplete checks.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.AA-05 full match
prevents

Explicitly requires defining, enforcing, and reviewing authorizations and least privilege, directly preventing missing authorization checks.

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.

prevents

Requiring authentication and credentials before any access occurs eliminates the absence of authorization checks that would otherwise allow an unauthenticated actor to reach protected resources.

prevents

Requiring formal authorization of every access request before rights are granted ensures that checks for required permissions are performed, preventing missing authorization checks from being introduced.

prevents

Mandatory authorization checks and central records of granted rights ensure that every access attempt is preceded by an explicit decision rather than relying on missing checks.

mitigates

Segregating the approval of access rights from their implementation provides an independent check that reduces the impact of missing authorization checks in the resulting system configuration.

detects

By requiring competent outsiders to verify that every function enforces the need-to-know principle, the control lowers the likelihood that missing authorization checks persist undetected.

prevents

Defining authorization responsibilities and reviewing risk-treatment progress throughout the project lifecycle catches missing authorization checks before the system is deployed.

References