CVE-2025-69186
Published: 22 January 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-69186 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-14 (Permitted Actions Without Identification or Authentication).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-69186 is a missing authorization vulnerability (CWE-862) in the e-plugins Hospital Doctor Directory WordPress plugin (hospital-doctor-directory). It enables exploiting incorrectly configured access control security levels and affects all versions from n/a through 1.3.9. The vulnerability received 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) and was published on 2026-01-22.
Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network with low complexity and no user interaction. Successful exploitation allows partial impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
The Patchstack advisory provides details on this broken access control vulnerability in Hospital Doctor Directory plugin version 1.3.9: https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/hospital-doctor-directory/vulnerability/wordpress-hospital-doctor-directory-plugin-1-3-9-broken-access-control-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-3877
Vulnerability details
Missing Authorization vulnerability in e-plugins Hospital Doctor Directory hospital-doctor-directory allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Hospital Doctor Directory: from n/a through <= 1.3.9.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Missing authorization (broken access control) in a public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables remote exploitation of the web application without authentication.
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Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly enforces authorization checks before allowing access to plugin functions, preventing the missing-authorization flaw from being exploited.
Requires that plugin operations run with only the privileges needed, limiting the impact of incorrectly configured access control levels.
Explicitly defines and restricts actions permitted without authentication, directly addressing the unauthenticated exploitation path in the vulnerable plugin.