Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-69371

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 0.0040 31.9th percentile
Risk Priority 70 floored blend · peak EPSS

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 31.9th 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 RA-5 (Vulnerability Monitoring and Scanning) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation).

Deeper analysis

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.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

A08:2025 Software or Data Integrity Failures

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in AncoraThemes KindlyCare kindlycare allows Object Injection.This issue affects KindlyCare: from n/a through <= 1.6.1.

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?

Remote unauthenticated PHP object injection via deserialization in public-facing WordPress theme directly enables exploitation of public-facing applications 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-2 Flaw Remediation good match
prevent

Timely remediation of the deserialization of untrusted data flaw in KindlyCare WordPress theme versions through 1.6.1 directly prevents object injection exploitation.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

Validating untrusted inputs prior to deserialization comprehensively mitigates the object injection vulnerability by ensuring only safe data is processed.

RA-5 Vulnerability Monitoring and Scanning good match
detect

Vulnerability scanning detects the PHP object injection flaw in the KindlyCare theme, enabling identification and patching before exploitation.

References