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 16.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Likely Mitigating ControlsAI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Requiring an access control policy ensures authorization checks are defined and applied for critical functions.
Reviews of access controls detect missing authorization checks on critical functions or resources.
Documenting permitted unauthenticated actions prevents missing authorization by making all exceptions explicit and subject to organizational review.
Requiring attribute association with information prevents authorization from being performed without necessary security or privacy context.
Mandating authorization prior to allowing remote connections addresses missing authorization for remote access.
Mandating authorization before wireless connections are allowed prevents missing authorization for wireless access.
The control requires authorization before allowing mobile device connections, directly mitigating missing authorization for system access.
Requiring approvals for account creation and specifying authorizations ensures authorization is not missing for system access.
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.
NVD Description
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.
Deeper analysisAI
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.
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