Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-69301

CriticalRCE

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 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0037 29.2th percentile
Risk Priority 70 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2025-69301 is a critical-severity Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CWE-502) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 29.2th 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-2025-69301 is a Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability (CWE-502) in the ThemeGoods PhotoMe WordPress theme, enabling Object Injection. The issue affects PhotoMe versions from n/a through 5.6.11.

With a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), the vulnerability allows remote unauthenticated attackers to exploit it over the network with low complexity and no user interaction. Successful exploitation can result in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, potentially leading to full system compromise via arbitrary code execution or other object injection effects.

Patchstack advisories document the vulnerability specifically for the WordPress PhotoMe theme up to version 5.6.11, detailing the PHP Object Injection issue.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

A08:2025 Software or Data Integrity Failures

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in ThemeGoods PhotoMe photome allows Object Injection.This issue affects PhotoMe: from n/a through <= 5.6.11.

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 remote unauthenticated RCE via PHP deserialization/object injection in public-facing WordPress theme.

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

Flaw remediation requires timely patching of the deserialization vulnerability in PhotoMe versions up to 5.6.11, directly eliminating the object injection risk.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

Information input validation checks untrusted data before deserialization, preventing malicious object injection in the WordPress theme.

SI-16 Memory Protection partial match
prevent

Memory protection safeguards mitigate exploitation of object injection by preventing unauthorized code execution from deserialized objects.

References