CVE-2025-69068

High

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 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score 0.0051 39.6th percentile

Risk Priority 55 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2025-69068 is a high-severity PHP Remote File Inclusion (CWE-98) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 8.1 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 39.6th 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 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).

Deeper analysis

CVE-2025-69068 is an Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program vulnerability, known as PHP Remote File Inclusion, that allows PHP Local File Inclusion in the Muji WordPress theme developed by AncoraThemes. This issue affects Muji versions from n/a through 1.2.0. The vulnerability is associated with CWE-98 and carries a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.1 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), indicating high severity due to network accessibility and significant impacts despite high attack complexity.

Unauthenticated remote attackers (PR:N) can exploit this vulnerability over the network (AV:N) without user interaction (UI:N), though it requires high attack complexity (AC:H). Successful exploitation enables high confidentiality (C:H), integrity (I:H), and availability (A:H) impacts, such as reading sensitive local files or potentially executing arbitrary code if traversable paths lead to executable PHP files.

Mitigation details are available in advisories including the Patchstack database entry at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Theme/muji/vulnerability/wordpress-muji-theme-1-2-0-local-file-inclusion-vulnerability?_s_id=cve. The vulnerability was published on 2026-01-22T17:16:20.820.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-3925

Vulnerability details

Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program ('PHP Remote File Inclusion') vulnerability in AncoraThemes Muji muji allows PHP Local File Inclusion.This issue affects Muji: from n/a through <= 1.2.0.

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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T1005 Data from Local System Collection

Adversaries may search local system sources, such as file systems, configuration files, local databases, virtual machine files, or process memory, to find files of interest and sensitive data prior to Exfiltration.

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T1505.003 Web Shell Persistence

Adversaries may backdoor web servers with web shells to establish persistent access to systems.

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Why these techniques?

LFI/RFI in public-facing WordPress theme directly enables T1190 (public app exploitation) for unauthenticated remote access; facilitates T1005 (local file reads) and T1100 (web shell/code exec via PHP include).

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