CVE-2025-69191
Published: 22 January 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-69191 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 (CWE-862) in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables remote unauthenticated exploitation of access controls per T1190.
NVD Description
Missing Authorization vulnerability in e-plugins ListingHub listinghub allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects ListingHub: from n/a through <= 1.2.7.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-69191 is a missing authorization vulnerability (CWE-862) in the ListingHub WordPress plugin by e-plugins. The flaw enables exploitation of incorrectly configured access control security levels and affects all versions of the plugin up to and including 1.2.7. Published on 2026-01-22, 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. Exploitation allows limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, such as unauthorized access to certain plugin functions or data due to broken access controls.
The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/listinghub/vulnerability/wordpress-listinghub-plugin-1-2-7-broken-access-control-vulnerability?_s_id=cve provides details on the broken access control issue in ListingHub version 1.2.7.
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