Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-69036

HighRCE

Published: 22 January 2026

Published
22 January 2026
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0034 26.2th percentile
Risk Priority 55 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2025-69036 is a high-severity Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CWE-502) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 26.2th 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 RA-5 (Vulnerability Monitoring and Scanning) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation).

Deeper analysis

CVE-2025-69036 is a Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability (CWE-502) in the Tech Life CPT WordPress plugin (techlife-cpt) developed by strongholdthemes. The flaw allows Object Injection and affects the plugin from unknown initial versions through 16.4.

With a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), the vulnerability can be exploited over the network by an attacker with low privileges, such as an authenticated WordPress user. Exploitation requires low complexity and no user interaction, enabling high-impact effects on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, such as potential remote code execution through injected objects.

The Patchstack advisory provides details on the vulnerability in the Tech Life CPT plugin version 16.4; refer to https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/techlife-cpt/vulnerability/wordpress-tech-life-cpt-plugin-16-4-php-object-injection-vulnerability?_s_id=cve for mitigation guidance and patches.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

A08:2025 Software or Data Integrity Failures

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in strongholdthemes Tech Life CPT techlife-cpt allows Object Injection.This issue affects Tech Life CPT: from n/a through <= 16.4.

CWE(s)
CWE-502

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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T1059.004 Unix Shell Execution
Adversaries may abuse Unix shell commands and scripts for execution.
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Why these techniques?

Unsafe PHP deserialization in public WordPress plugin directly enables unauthenticated network RCE (T1190) and subsequent Unix shell command execution (T1059.004).

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

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Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match
prevent

Requires timely identification, reporting, and remediation of flaws like the deserialization vulnerability in Tech Life CPT plugin versions through 16.4.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

Mandates validation of untrusted inputs to block malicious serialized data leading to object injection and potential RCE.

RA-5 Vulnerability Monitoring and Scanning good match
detect

Provides vulnerability scanning to identify the deserialization flaw (CVE-2025-69036) in the WordPress plugin for patching.

References