Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-69181

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 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0007 21.5th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-69181 is a high-severity Missing Authorization (CWE-862) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 7.3 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 21.5th 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 AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and AC-24 (Access Control Decisions).

Deeper analysis

CVE-2025-69181 is a missing authorization vulnerability (CWE-862) in the Lawyer Directory WordPress plugin (lawyer-directory) developed by e-plugins. The flaw enables exploiting incorrectly configured access control security levels and affects all versions from n/a through 1.3.4. It carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L), indicating high severity due to its network accessibility and lack of prerequisites.

Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. Successful exploitation allows limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, potentially enabling unauthorized access or modifications within the plugin's scope.

The Patchstack advisory provides further details on this broken access control vulnerability in WordPress Lawyer Directory plugin version 1.3.4, available at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/lawyer-directory/vulnerability/wordpress-lawyer-directory-plugin-1-3-4-broken-access-control-vulnerability?_s_id=cve. Security practitioners should consult it for mitigation guidance and patch information.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Missing Authorization vulnerability in e-plugins Lawyer Directory lawyer-directory allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Lawyer Directory: from n/a through <= 1.3.4.

CWE(s)
CWE-862

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?

Missing authorization (broken access control) in a publicly exposed WordPress plugin directly enables remote exploitation of a public-facing web application without authentication.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

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Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

AC-3 Access Enforcement good match
prevent

Directly enforces authorization checks before allowing access to plugin functions, preventing the missing-authorization flaw from being exploited by unauthenticated attackers.

AC-6 Least Privilege partial match
prevent

Limits privileges granted to unauthenticated or low-privilege sessions, reducing the scope of actions an attacker can perform even when access-control checks are absent.

AC-24 Access Control Decisions partial match
prevent

Ensures access-control decisions are made and enforced at runtime for every request, directly addressing the incorrectly configured security levels described in the CVE.

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