CVE-2025-68057
Published: 22 January 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-68057 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 Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 5.6th 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 AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and AC-6 (Least Privilege).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-68057 is a missing authorization vulnerability, classified under CWE-862, in the e-plugins Hospital Doctor Directory WordPress plugin (hospital-doctor-directory). The flaw enables exploiting incorrectly configured access control security levels and affects all versions from n/a through 1.3.9.
With 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), the vulnerability can be exploited by low-privileged authenticated users over the network with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. Successful exploitation results in low confidentiality impact, high integrity impact, and low availability impact, unchanged scope.
The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/hospital-doctor-directory/vulnerability/wordpress-hospital-doctor-directory-plugin-1-3-9-broken-access-control-vulnerability-2?_s_id=cve documents this broken access control issue in the Hospital Doctor Directory plugin up to version 1.3.9, indicating that updating to a version beyond 1.3.9 addresses the vulnerability.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-3989
Vulnerability details
Missing Authorization vulnerability in e-plugins Hospital Doctor Directory hospital-doctor-directory allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Hospital Doctor Directory: from n/a through <= 1.3.9.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Missing authorization (CWE-862) in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables remote exploitation of access controls by authenticated users.
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Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Mandates enforcement of approved authorizations for access to system resources, directly addressing the missing authorization and broken access control in the Hospital Doctor Directory plugin.
Enforces least privilege to restrict low-privileged users (PR:L) from performing high-integrity impact actions exploited via this vulnerability.
Requires timely identification, reporting, and correction of flaws, such as updating the vulnerable plugin versions <=1.3.9 to prevent exploitation.