Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-69294

HighRCE

Published: 20 February 2026

Published
20 February 2026
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0047 36.9th percentile
Risk Priority 55 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2025-69294 is a high-severity Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CWE-502) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 36.9th 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-2025-69294 is a Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability (CWE-502) in the PeakShops WordPress theme developed by fuelthemes, enabling Object Injection. The issue affects PeakShops versions from n/a through <=1.5.9 and was published on 2026-02-20.

The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H). An attacker with low privileges, such as an authenticated WordPress user, can exploit it over the network with low complexity and no user interaction, achieving high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability through object injection.

Patchstack documents this PHP Object Injection vulnerability specifically in PeakShops theme version 1.5.9.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

A08:2025 Software or Data Integrity Failures

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in fuelthemes PeakShops peakshops allows Object Injection.This issue affects PeakShops: from n/a through <= 1.5.9.

CWE(s)
CWE-502

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?

Direct server-side deserialization/object injection in public-facing WordPress theme allows remote exploitation by authenticated users for full compromise (RCE/priv-esc).

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

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Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match
prevent

Timely flaw remediation patches the deserialization vulnerability in vulnerable PeakShops theme versions up to 1.5.9, directly preventing object injection.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

Information input validation sanitizes and checks untrusted data before deserialization, blocking malicious serialized objects in PeakShops.

RA-5 Vulnerability Monitoring and Scanning partial match
detect

Vulnerability scanning detects the known deserialization flaw (CVE-2025-69294) in the PeakShops WordPress theme, enabling proactive remediation.

References