Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-68059

High

Published: 22 January 2026

Published
22 January 2026
Modified
27 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0002 5.6th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-68059 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-2025-68059 is a missing authorization vulnerability (CWE-862) in the e-plugins Hotel Listing WordPress plugin, also known as hotel-listing. The flaw allows exploitation of incorrectly configured access control security levels and affects all versions from n/a through 1.4.2.

The vulnerability can be exploited over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), requiring low privileges (PR:L) and no user interaction (UI:N). It carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.6 (C:L/I:H/A:L/S:U), enabling attackers to achieve low confidentiality impact, high integrity impact, and low availability impact within unchanged scope.

Patchstack's advisory on this broken access control issue in the Hotel Listing plugin version 1.4.2 provides further details at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/hotel-listing/vulnerability/wordpress-hotel-listing-plugin-1-4-2-broken-access-control-vulnerability-2?_s_id=cve.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Missing Authorization vulnerability in e-plugins Hotel Listing hotel-listing allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Hotel Listing: from n/a through <= 1.4.2.

CWE(s)
CWE-862

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?

Missing authorization/broken access control in a public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables remote exploitation of the web application (T1190) with low privileges.

Confidence: MEDIUM · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

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Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

AC-3 Access Enforcement good match
prevent

Requires enforcement of approved authorizations for access to system resources, directly addressing the missing authorization vulnerability in the Hotel Listing plugin.

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match
prevent

Mandates timely identification, reporting, and correction of flaws like this broken access control issue through plugin patching.

AC-6 Least Privilege partial match
prevent

Enforces least privilege to minimize the impact of unauthorized actions exploitable by low-privileged attackers via the plugin's access control flaw.

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