Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-69312

Critical

Published: 22 January 2026

Published
22 January 2026
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0033 24.9th percentile
Risk Priority 70 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2025-69312 is a critical-severity Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type (CWE-434) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 9.1 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Web Shell (T1505.003); ranked at the 24.9th 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-3 (Malicious Code Protection).

Deeper analysis

CVE-2025-69312 is an Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type vulnerability (CWE-434) in the Xpro Elementor Addons WordPress plugin (xpro-elementor-addons). This issue affects all versions from n/a through 1.4.19.1 and enables attackers to upload a web shell to the web server. The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.1 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H), indicating critical severity due to its potential for severe impact across confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The attack scenario requires network access with low complexity and no user interaction, but demands high privileges (PR:H), such as those held by an authenticated administrator. A successful exploit allows the upload of dangerous files like web shells directly to the web server, enabling remote code execution and potentially full server compromise given the changed scope (S:C) and high impact metrics.

Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/xpro-elementor-addons/vulnerability/wordpress-xpro-elementor-addons-plugin-1-4-19-1-arbitrary-file-upload-vulnerability?_s_id=cve. The CVE was published on 2026-01-22T17:16:26.840.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

A06:2025 Insecure Design

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type vulnerability in Xpro Xpro Elementor Addons xpro-elementor-addons allows Upload a Web Shell to a Web Server.This issue affects Xpro Elementor Addons: from n/a through <= 1.4.19.1.

CWE(s)
CWE-434

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1505.003 Web Shell Persistence
Adversaries may backdoor web servers with web shells to establish persistent access to systems.
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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?

Unrestricted file upload (CWE-434) in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables web shell deployment (T1100) and exploitation of a public-facing application (T1190) for RCE.

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

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Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

Directly prevents unrestricted upload of dangerous files like web shells by enforcing input validation on file types and content at upload points in the plugin.

SI-9 Information Input Restrictions good match
prevent

Restricts file uploads to only permitted types and parameters, blocking dangerous file types exploitable in the Xpro Elementor Addons plugin.

SI-3 Malicious Code Protection good match
preventdetect

Scans uploads for malicious code such as web shells at system entry points, eradicating them before execution on the web server.

References