CVE-2025-60212
Published: 22 October 2025
Description
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-60212 is a Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability (CWE-502) in the VEDA theme developed by designthemes for WordPress. The flaw enables Object Injection and affects VEDA versions from n/a through 4.2 inclusive. Published on 2025-10-22, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), indicating high severity due to its potential for significant impact.
The vulnerability can be exploited by low-privileged remote attackers, such as authenticated WordPress users with contributor-level access or similar. Exploitation requires low complexity and no user interaction, allowing attackers to inject malicious objects via network-accessible vectors in the theme's deserialization process. Successful attacks can result in high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution, data manipulation, or system compromise on affected sites.
Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Theme/veda/vulnerability/wordpress-veda-theme-4-2-php-object-injection-vulnerability?_s_id=cve, which documents the PHP Object Injection issue in VEDA theme version 4.2. Security practitioners should consult this reference for patching guidance and verify updates beyond version 4.2.
Details
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MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
Why these techniques?
Deserialization of untrusted data (object injection) in a WordPress theme enables remote exploitation of a public-facing web application by low-privileged authenticated users, directly mapping to T1190.