CVE-2025-60197
Published: 06 November 2025
Description
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-60197 is an Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program vulnerability, known as PHP Remote File Inclusion, in the owenr88 Simple Contact Forms WordPress plugin (simple-contact-forms). The flaw enables PHP Local File Inclusion and affects all versions from n/a through 1.6.4. It is associated with CWE-98 and received 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, high attack complexity, no privileges or user interaction required, and high impacts across confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Unauthenticated remote attackers (PR:N) can exploit this vulnerability over the network (AV:N) without user interaction (UI:N), though it requires high attack complexity (AC:H). Successful exploitation allows local file inclusion, potentially enabling attackers to read sensitive local files or, depending on server configuration, execute arbitrary code, leading to the high impacts outlined in the CVSS metrics.
Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/simple-contact-forms/vulnerability/wordpress-simple-contact-forms-plugin-1-6-4-local-file-inclusion-vulnerability?_s_id=cve. The vulnerability was published on 2025-11-06T16:16:04.953.
Details
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MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
Why these techniques?
Unauthenticated remote local file inclusion vulnerability in a public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of public-facing applications (T1190), with potential for sensitive file reads or code execution depending on configuration.