CVE-2025-68907
Published: 22 January 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-68907 is a high-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability. 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 21.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Likely Mitigating ControlsAI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Path traversal in public-facing WordPress theme enables remote unauthenticated arbitrary file deletion (T1190), directly supporting data destruction (T1485) and file deletion for impact or cleanup (T1070.004).
NVD Description
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in AivahThemes Hostme v2 hostmev2 allows Path Traversal.This issue affects Hostme v2: from n/a through <= 7.0.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-68907 is an Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability, corresponding to CWE-22, in the AivahThemes Hostme v2 WordPress theme. This flaw affects Hostme v2 versions from n/a through 7.0 inclusive and enables path traversal attacks.
With 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), the vulnerability is exploitable remotely over the network by unauthenticated attackers requiring low complexity and no user interaction. Exploitation allows arbitrary file deletion, resulting in high availability impact without affecting confidentiality or integrity.
The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Theme/hostmev2/vulnerability/wordpress-hostme-v2-theme-7-0-arbitrary-file-deletion-vulnerability?_s_id=cve documents this arbitrary file deletion vulnerability in Hostme v2 version 7.0 and provides details relevant to mitigation for affected WordPress installations.
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