CVE-2025-69371
Published: 20 February 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-69371 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 18.8th 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 RA-5 (Vulnerability Monitoring and Scanning) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
Timely remediation of the deserialization of untrusted data flaw in KindlyCare WordPress theme versions through 1.6.1 directly prevents object injection exploitation.
Validating untrusted inputs prior to deserialization comprehensively mitigates the object injection vulnerability by ensuring only safe data is processed.
Vulnerability scanning detects the PHP object injection flaw in the KindlyCare theme, enabling identification and patching before exploitation.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Remote unauthenticated PHP object injection via deserialization in public-facing WordPress theme directly enables exploitation of public-facing applications for RCE.
NVD Description
Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in AncoraThemes KindlyCare kindlycare allows Object Injection.This issue affects KindlyCare: from n/a through <= 1.6.1.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-69371 is a Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability (CWE-502) in the KindlyCare WordPress theme developed by AncoraThemes. The flaw allows Object Injection and affects the kindlycare component in all versions from n/a through 1.6.1 inclusive. Published on 2026-02-20, it carries 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), marking it as critical.
A remote attacker requires no privileges or user interaction to exploit this vulnerability over the network with low attack complexity. Successful exploitation enables object injection via untrusted deserialization, potentially leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, such as arbitrary code execution or data manipulation depending on the deserialized objects.
The Patchstack advisory provides further details on this PHP Object Injection vulnerability in KindlyCare theme version 1.6.1, available at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Theme/kindlycare/vulnerability/wordpress-kindlycare-theme-1-6-1-php-object-injection-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
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