Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-69403

Critical

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 9.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0043 34.6th percentile
Risk Priority 70 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2025-69403 is a critical-severity Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type (CWE-434) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 9.9 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 34.6th 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-2025-69403 is an Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type vulnerability (CWE-434) in the Bravis Addons WordPress plugin developed by Bravis-Themes. The flaw, published on 2026-02-20, affects all versions of the bravis-addons plugin from n/a through 1.3.0 and enables attackers to upload and use malicious files.

The vulnerability has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.9 (Critical), with attack vector of network (AV:N), low attack complexity (AC:L), low privileges required (PR:L), no user interaction (UI:N), and changed scope (S:C), resulting in high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H). Low-privileged users, such as authenticated WordPress contributors or authors, can exploit it remotely to upload dangerous files, potentially achieving remote code execution or full server compromise.

Patchstack has issued an advisory on the arbitrary file upload vulnerability in the Bravis Addons plugin, covering details for version 1.1.9 and accessible at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/bravis-addons/vulnerability/wordpress-bravis-addons-plugin-1-1-9-arbitrary-file-upload-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

A06:2025 Insecure Design

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type vulnerability in Bravis-Themes Bravis Addons bravis-addons allows Using Malicious Files.This issue affects Bravis Addons: from n/a through <= 1.3.0.

CWE(s)
CWE-434

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

Arbitrary file upload in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of public-facing application and installation of web shells 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

Flaw remediation directly addresses the specific vulnerability in the Bravis Addons plugin by identifying, reporting, and correcting the unrestricted file upload issue.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

Information input validation enforces checks on uploaded files to reject dangerous types and malicious content, comprehensively preventing exploitation of this CWE-434 vulnerability.

SI-3 Malicious Code Protection partial match
preventdetect

Malicious code protection scans and blocks harmful files that could be uploaded via the vulnerable plugin, mitigating potential remote code execution.

References