CVE-2025-68069
Published: 20 February 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-68069 is a high-severity Missing Authorization (CWE-862) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 7.1 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 4.7th 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-2025-68069 is a missing authorization vulnerability (CWE-862) in the Directorist WordPress plugin by wpWax. The flaw enables exploiting incorrectly configured access control security levels and affects Directorist versions from n/a through 8.6.6. It carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L), indicating medium-high severity due to its potential for integrity and availability impacts.
An authenticated attacker with low privileges can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. Exploitation allows high-impact modifications to data integrity and low-impact disruptions to availability, while confidentiality remains unaffected.
Mitigation details are available in advisories such as the Patchstack database entry at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/directorist/vulnerability/wordpress-directorist-plugin-8-5-6-broken-access-control-vulnerability?_s_id=cve. The vulnerability was published on 2026-02-20T16:22:09.380.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-208078
Vulnerability details
Missing Authorization vulnerability in wpWax Directorist directorist allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Directorist: from n/a through <= 8.6.6.
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Related Threats
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Why these techniques?
Missing authorization (broken access control) in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables remote exploitation of the web application by low-privileged authenticated users.
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Mitigating Controls
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Directly enforces approved authorizations for all access attempts, preventing the missing-authorization flaw from allowing unauthorized modifications.
Restricts user privileges to the minimum required, limiting the scope of actions an authenticated attacker can perform even when authorization checks are absent.
Manages account creation, modification, and privilege assignment to reduce the chance of low-privilege accounts being able to reach vulnerable plugin functions.