CVE-2025-68058
Published: 22 January 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-68058 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 SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-68058 is a missing authorization vulnerability (CWE-862) in the Institutions Directory WordPress plugin developed by e-plugins. The flaw enables exploitation of incorrectly configured access control security levels and affects all versions of the plugin from n/a through 1.3.4.
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 a low-privileged remote user over the network with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. Successful exploitation allows the attacker to achieve low confidentiality impact, high integrity impact, and low availability impact.
The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/institutions-directory/vulnerability/wordpress-institutions-directory-plugin-1-3-4-broken-access-control-vulnerability-2?_s_id=cve documents the broken access control issue in Institutions Directory version 1.3.4 and provides details on mitigation strategies.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-4012
Vulnerability details
Missing Authorization vulnerability in e-plugins Institutions Directory institutions-directory allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Institutions Directory: from n/a through <= 1.3..4.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Missing authorization (broken access control) in a public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables remote exploitation of the web application (T1190) by low-privileged users and facilitates privilege escalation via unauthorized high-integrity actions (T1068).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly requires enforcement of approved authorizations for access to system resources, mitigating the missing authorization vulnerability in the Institutions Directory plugin.
Mandates timely identification, reporting, and correction of flaws like this broken access control issue through patching affected plugin versions up to 1.3.4.
Applies least privilege to limit the scope of actions low-privileged users (PR:L) can perform, reducing integrity and availability impacts from exploitation.