Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-69409

High

Published: 20 February 2026

Published
20 February 2026
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0006 17.4th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Adversaries may search local file systems and remote file shares for files containing insecurely stored credentials.

Security Summary

CVE-2025-69409 is an Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program vulnerability, classified as PHP Remote File Inclusion but enabling PHP Local File Inclusion (CWE-98), in the axiomthemes PJ | Life & Business Coaching WordPress theme. This issue affects all versions from n/a through 3.0.0. The vulnerability was published on 2026-02-20 with 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).

Remote attackers can exploit this vulnerability over the network without authentication or user interaction, though it requires high attack complexity. Successful exploitation allows attackers to include and potentially execute arbitrary local PHP files, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, such as unauthorized access to sensitive data or server compromise.

Patchstack advisories document this as a Local File Inclusion vulnerability specifically in PJ | Life & Business Coaching theme version 3.0.0, providing details on the affected WordPress theme.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-98

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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T1083 File and Directory Discovery Discovery
Adversaries may enumerate files and directories or may search in specific locations of a host or network share for certain information within a file system.
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T1005 Data from Local System Collection
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.
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T1552.001 Credentials In Files Credential Access
Adversaries may search local file systems and remote file shares for files containing insecurely stored credentials.
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Why these techniques?

LFI vulnerability in public-facing WordPress theme enables unauthenticated remote exploitation (T1190), arbitrary local file reads for discovery (T1083, T1005), and credential extraction from files like wp-config.php (T1552.001).

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

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