CVE-2025-68974

Medium

Published: 30 December 2025

Published

30 December 2025

Modified

27 April 2026

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score v3.1 6.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score 0.0010 27.3th percentile

Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-68974 is a medium-severity PHP Remote File Inclusion (CWE-98) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 6.6 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 27.3th 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 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).

Deeper analysis

CVE-2025-68974 is an Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program vulnerability, described as PHP Remote File Inclusion but enabling PHP Local File Inclusion (CWE-98). It affects the miniOrange WordPress Social Login and Register plugin (miniorange-login-openid) in all versions up to and including 7.7.0.

The vulnerability can be exploited over the network (AV:N) by attackers with high privileges (PR:H), such as authenticated administrators, under high attack complexity (AC:H) conditions and without requiring user interaction (UI:N). Successful exploitation results in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H), with unchanged scope (S:U), yielding an overall CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.6.

Advisories and mitigation details, including patches, are documented in the Patchstack vulnerability database at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/miniorange-login-openid/vulnerability/wordpress-wordpress-social-login-and-register-plugin-7-7-0-local-file-inclusion-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-205761

Vulnerability details

Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program ('PHP Remote File Inclusion') vulnerability in miniOrange WordPress Social Login and Register miniorange-login-openid allows PHP Local File Inclusion.This issue affects WordPress Social Login and Register: from n/a through <= 7.7.0.

CWE(s): CWE-98

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?

This is an unauthenticated remote Local File Inclusion (LFI) vulnerability in a public-facing WordPress plugin, directly enabling exploitation of public-facing applications for initial access, with potential for arbitrary file reads and server compromise.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0