CVE-2025-24690
Published: 26 March 2025
Description
Adversaries may search local system sources, such as file systems, configuration files, local databases, virtual machine files, or process memory, to find files of interest and sensitive data prior to Exfiltration.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-24690 is an Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program vulnerability, specifically a PHP Local File Inclusion issue (CWE-98), in the Formality WordPress plugin developed by Michele Giorgi. This flaw affects all versions of the plugin from n/a through 1.5.7. Published on 2025-03-26, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.1 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), indicating high severity due to network accessibility and significant impacts despite requiring high attack complexity.
The vulnerability can be exploited by unauthenticated remote attackers (PR:N) over the network (AV:N) without user interaction (UI:N), though it demands high complexity (AC:H) and maintains unchanged scope (S:U). Successful exploitation enables high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts (C:H/I:H/A:H), allowing attackers to perform local file inclusion on the targeted system.
Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/formality/vulnerability/wordpress-formality-plugin-1-5-7-local-file-inclusion-vulnerability?_s_id=cve, which documents the vulnerability in the WordPress Formality plugin version 1.5.7.
Details
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MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
Why these techniques?
The CVE describes a remotely exploitable LFI vulnerability in a public-facing WordPress plugin, directly enabling T1190. The file inclusion mechanism facilitates reading arbitrary local files, mapping to T1005.