CVE-2025-68547
Published: 05 January 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-68547 is a high-severity Missing Authorization (CWE-862) vulnerability in Wpwebelite Follow My Blog Post. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 10.6th 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-14 (Permitted Actions Without Identification or Authentication) and AC-3 (Access Enforcement).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-68547 is a missing authorization vulnerability (CWE-862) in the WordPress plugin Follow My Blog Post, developed by wpweb. The flaw enables exploitation of incorrectly configured access control security levels and affects all versions of the plugin from n/a through 2.4.0. Published on 2026-01-05, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H), indicating high severity primarily due to availability impact.
Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. Exploitation allows arbitrary content deletion within affected WordPress installations, potentially disrupting site functionality by removing posts, pages, or other content.
The Patchstack advisory documents this as an arbitrary content deletion vulnerability in Follow My Blog Post version 2.4.0 and provides details on the issue, available at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/follow-my-blog-post/vulnerability/wordpress-follow-my-blog-post-plugin-2-4-0-arbitrary-content-deletion-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-0877
Vulnerability details
Missing Authorization vulnerability in wpweb Follow My Blog Post follow-my-blog-post allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Follow My Blog Post: from n/a through <= 2.4.0.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Missing authorization in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables remote unauthenticated exploitation (T1190) leading to arbitrary content deletion (T1485).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Enforces approved authorizations for access to system resources, directly mitigating the missing authorization that allows unauthenticated arbitrary content deletion.
Explicitly defines and enforces permitted actions without identification or authentication, preventing unauthenticated attackers from performing content deletion.
Requires timely identification, reporting, and correction of flaws like this plugin's missing authorization vulnerability.