CVE-2025-69036
Published: 22 January 2026
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 21.6th 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 RA-5 (Vulnerability Monitoring and Scanning) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
Requires timely identification, reporting, and remediation of flaws like the deserialization vulnerability in Tech Life CPT plugin versions through 16.4.
Mandates validation of untrusted inputs to block malicious serialized data leading to object injection and potential RCE.
Provides vulnerability scanning to identify the deserialization flaw (CVE-2025-69036) in the WordPress plugin for patching.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Unsafe PHP deserialization in public WordPress plugin directly enables unauthenticated network RCE (T1190) and subsequent Unix shell command execution (T1059.004).
NVD Description
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.
Deeper analysisAI
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.
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