Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-26961

High

Published: 15 March 2025

Published
15 March 2025
Modified
23 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score 8.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0006 19.5th percentile
Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.

Security Summary

CVE-2025-26961 is a missing authorization vulnerability (CWE-862) in the FRESHFACE Fresh Framework WordPress plugin (fresh-framework). It enables accessing functionality not properly constrained by access control lists (ACLs). The vulnerability affects all versions from n/a through 1.70.0 inclusive.

Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), no privileges required (PR:N), and no user interaction (UI:N). Exploitation yields low confidentiality impact (C:L), high integrity impact (I:H), low availability impact (A:L), and unchanged scope (S:U), resulting in a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.6.

Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/fresh-framework/vulnerability/wordpress-fresh-framework-plugin-1-70-0-unauthenticated-broken-access-control-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-862

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

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?

Missing authorization (CWE-862) in public-facing WordPress plugin enables remote unauthenticated exploitation of the application for initial access.

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

References