Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-69297

High

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 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0004 13.1th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

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 13.1th 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 SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).

Deeper analysis

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.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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.

CWE(s)
CWE-862

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?

Missing authorization (CWE-862) in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables unauthenticated network exploitation for unauthorized data/resource modifications.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

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Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

AC-3 Access Enforcement good match
prevent

Enforces approved authorizations for logical access to information and system resources, directly mitigating the missing authorization vulnerability in the aardvark-plugin.

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match
prevent

Requires identification, reporting, and timely correction of flaws like CVE-2025-69297, preventing exploitation through patching the vulnerable plugin versions.

CM-6 Configuration Settings partial match
prevent

Establishes and enforces secure configuration settings to address incorrectly configured access control security levels exploited by this vulnerability.

References