CVE-2025-69297
Published: 20 February 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-69297 is a high-severity Missing Authorization (CWE-862) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 12.7th 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 unauthenticated network exploitation for unauthorized data/resource modifications.
NVD Description
Missing Authorization vulnerability in GhostPool Aardvark Plugin aardvark-plugin allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Aardvark Plugin: from n/a through <= 2.19.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-69297 is a missing authorization vulnerability (CWE-862) in the GhostPool Aardvark Plugin, known as aardvark-plugin, for WordPress. The flaw enables exploiting incorrectly configured access control security levels and affects all versions from n/a through 2.19 inclusive. It was published on 2026-02-20T16:22:16.400 with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N).
Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability over the network with low complexity and no user interaction required. Successful exploitation leads to high integrity impacts, allowing unauthorized modifications to data or resources without affecting confidentiality or availability.
Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/aardvark-plugin/vulnerability/wordpress-aardvark-plugin-plugin-2-19-broken-access-control-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
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