CVE-2025-7710

Critical

Published: 02 August 2025

Published

02 August 2025

Modified

15 April 2026

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score 0.0044 63.2th percentile

Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-7710 is a critical-severity Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel (CWE-288) vulnerability in Getbrave (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 36.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 IA-13 (Identity Providers and Authorization Servers) and IA-8 (Identification and Authentication (Non-organizational Users)).

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What attackers do: exploitation maps to Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) and 1 other technique. What defenders deploy: see the NIST 800-53 controls recommended below.

Threat & Defense Details

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match

prevent

Directly mitigates the CVE by requiring timely identification, reporting, and correction of the authentication bypass flaw in the Brave plugin, as recommended in advisories.

IA-13 Identity Providers and Authorization Servers good match

prevent

Mandates selection, registration, and management of identity providers like Facebook to ensure proper restriction of claimed identities and prevent authentication bypass via alternate channels.

IA-8 Identification and Authentication (Non-organizational Users) good match

prevent

Requires unique identification and authentication for non-organizational users, countering exploitation by unauthenticated attackers using the flawed Facebook mechanism to impersonate users.

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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T1078 Valid Accounts Stealth

Adversaries may obtain and abuse credentials of existing accounts as a means of gaining Initial Access, Persistence, Privilege Escalation, or Defense Evasion.

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Why these techniques?

Auth bypass in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables T1190 exploitation for initial access and T1078 use of valid accounts via impersonation.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

NVD Description

The Brave Conversion Engine (PRO) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass in all versions up to, and including, 0.7.7. This is due to the plugin not properly restricting a claimed identity while authenticating with Facebook. This makes it…

possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as other users, including administrators.

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2025-7710 is an authentication bypass vulnerability affecting the Brave Conversion Engine (PRO) plugin for WordPress in all versions up to and including 0.7.7. The issue stems from the plugin failing to properly restrict a claimed identity during authentication with Facebook, enabling attackers to impersonate legitimate users. It has been assigned 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) and is associated with CWE-288 (Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel). The vulnerability was published on 2025-08-02.

Unauthenticated attackers with network access can exploit this vulnerability with low complexity and no user interaction required. By leveraging the flawed Facebook authentication mechanism, they can log in as any other user on the site, including administrators, potentially gaining full control over the WordPress installation.

Mitigation details are available in advisories from Wordfence and the Brave PRO changelog at https://getbrave.io/brave-pro-changelog/ and https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/604249c6-b23a-40e9-984d-2014f5c97249?source=cve, respectively. Security practitioners should update to a patched version of the plugin beyond 0.7.7 where available.