Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-60226

Critical

Published: 22 October 2025

Published
22 October 2025
Modified
20 January 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0010 27.5th percentile
Risk Priority 20 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-2025-60226 is a Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability (CWE-502) in the White Rabbit WordPress theme developed by axiomthemes, enabling PHP Object Injection. The issue affects all versions of the White Rabbit theme up to and including 1.5.2. Published on 2025-10-22, it has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8, indicating critical severity due to its network accessibility, low attack complexity, lack of required privileges or user interaction, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

A remote unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability over the network with low complexity and no user interaction. Successful exploitation allows object injection, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution, data manipulation, or denial of service, depending on the injected objects and server configuration.

The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Theme/whiterabbit/vulnerability/wordpress-white-rabbit-theme-1-5-2-php-object-injection-vulnerability?_s_id=cve provides details on this WordPress theme vulnerability, including recommended mitigations such as updating to a patched version if available or applying custom fixes.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-502

Affected Products

axiomthemes
white rabbit
≤ 1.5.2

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.
Why these techniques?

The vulnerability is a critical deserialization flaw in a public-facing WordPress theme, exploitable remotely by unauthenticated attackers with low complexity, directly enabling exploitation of public-facing applications for initial access and potential RCE.

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

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