Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-25776

CriticalRCE

Published: 08 April 2026

Published
08 April 2026
Modified
20 April 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v4 9.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
EPSS Score 0.0047 36.9th percentile
Risk Priority 70 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2026-25776 is a critical-severity Code Injection (CWE-94) vulnerability in Sixapart Movable Type. Its CVSS base score is 9.3 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 36.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Movable Type provided by Six Apart Ltd. contains a code injection vulnerability which may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary Perl script.

CWE(s)

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.
T1059.004 Unix Shell Execution
Adversaries may abuse Unix shell commands and scripts for execution.
Why these techniques?

Remote code injection in public-facing Movable Type CMS directly enables T1190 exploitation and arbitrary Perl execution via T1059.004 Unix Shell interpreter.

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

Affected Assets

sixapart
movable type
9.0.5, 9.0.6, 9.1.0 · ≤ 2.14 · 8.0.2 — 8.0.10 · 8.8.0 — 8.8.3

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-94

Makes persistent code injection into loaded programs impossible when the executable image itself resides on hardware-protected read-only media.

addresses: CWE-94

Dynamically generated code can be produced and executed inside the isolated chamber, preventing host compromise from code-injection payloads.

addresses: CWE-94

Validates inputs used in dynamic code generation to block injected directives.

addresses: CWE-94

Directly prevents execution of attacker-supplied code written into data memory regions.

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