CVE-2025-67967
Published: 22 January 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-67967 is a high-severity Missing Authorization (CWE-862) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 7.6 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 4.2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Likely Mitigating ControlsAI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Requiring an access control policy ensures authorization checks are defined and applied for critical functions.
Reviews of access controls detect missing authorization checks on critical functions or resources.
Documenting permitted unauthenticated actions prevents missing authorization by making all exceptions explicit and subject to organizational review.
Requiring attribute association with information prevents authorization from being performed without necessary security or privacy context.
Mandating authorization prior to allowing remote connections addresses missing authorization for remote access.
Mandating authorization before wireless connections are allowed prevents missing authorization for wireless access.
The control requires authorization before allowing mobile device connections, directly mitigating missing authorization for system access.
Requiring approvals for account creation and specifying authorizations ensures authorization is not missing for system access.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Missing authorization (CWE-862) in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables low-privileged authenticated users to perform unauthorized high-integrity actions, mapping to exploitation for privilege escalation and public-facing application exploitation.
NVD Description
Missing Authorization vulnerability in e-plugins Lawyer Directory lawyer-directory allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Lawyer Directory: from n/a through <= 1.3.3.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-67967 is a missing authorization vulnerability (CWE-862) in the Lawyer Directory WordPress plugin by e-plugins (lawyer-directory). It enables exploiting incorrectly configured access control security levels and affects all versions of the plugin from n/a through 1.3.3. The issue received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.6 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L), indicating high severity due to network accessibility, low attack complexity, and impacts across confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
The vulnerability can be exploited by low-privileged users (PR:L) over the network with low complexity and no user interaction required. Attackers can achieve low confidentiality impact, high integrity impact (such as unauthorized data modification), and low availability impact within the unchanged scope.
Patchstack's advisory provides details on the broken access control vulnerability in Lawyer Directory plugin version 1.3.3, available at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/lawyer-directory/vulnerability/wordpress-lawyer-directory-plugin-1-3-3-broken-access-control-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
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