CVE-2021-25094

CRITICALNVD 8.19.0
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.

Score elevated to 9.0 because EPSS predicted 83% probability of exploitation within the next 30 days (99th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs) when EchelonGraph scored this CVE. NVD baseline CVSS 8.1 retained for reference. Confidence: see factors.

Triggered by: EPSS exploit prediction (continuous uplift above 30%)
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekWeaponized
9.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan mitigationRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High exploitation likelihood — EPSS 83%
  • Public exploit code is available (Metasploit, other public proof-of-concept code)
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 83%CVSS: 8.1Exploit: Metasploit · other public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.

The CVE record's CNA (WPScan) lists Tatsu versions 3.3.12 up to but not including 3.3.12 as affected. No release containing a fix is confirmed on record.

The Tatsu WordPress plugin before 3.3.12 add_custom_font action can be used without prior authentication to upload a rogue zip file which is uncompressed under the WordPress's upload directory. By adding a PHP shell with a filename starting with a dot ".", this can bypass extension control implemented in the plugin. Moreover, there is a race condition in the zip extraction process which makes the shell file live long enough on the filesystem to be callable by an attacker.

CVSS v3
8.1
EG Score
9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
70
EG Risk 70/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity81% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 8.1 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation83% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's BOD 26-04 default: no one has published Automatable for this CVE, and CISA treats it as “no” for a CVE not in KEV.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high, and watch for a fix.
EPSS PROB
83%
EPSS %ILE
99th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.0 is EPSS's lift toward 9.0 from its impact severity (EG Severity, CVSS 8.1 HIGH): a likelihood of exploitation, not impact.

EG Severity
8.1 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
83% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-22). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high, and watch for a fix.

Exploitation public PoC (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). Where an input reads “CISA's BOD 26-04 default”, no one has published it for this CVE, and CISA's implementation guidance says: “If “Automatable” and “Technical Impact” information items about a CVE ID are not available and the CVE ID is not in the KEV Catalog, CISA will treat its values as “no” and “total,” respectively, until CISA or a third party provides metadata about the CVE ID. CISA will always provide the Vulnrichment data for a CVE ID listed in the KEV Catalog.” Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

April 25, 2022

Last Modified

April 21, 2025

Advisory Details (5)

Auto-updated Sep 17, 2026
No fix on record yet.
Web page

Tatsu 3.3.11 - Unauthenticated RCE - PHP webapps Exploit

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/52260
Web page

Tatsu < 3.3.12 – Unauthenticated RCE | CVE 2021-25094 | Plugin Vulnerabilities

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/fb0097a0-5d7b-4e5b-97de-aacafa8fffcd
Web page

Locked Out | Packet Storm

https://packetstorm.news/files/id/190566/
Web page

Wordpress Tatsu builder preauth RCE (CVE-2021-25094) | @darkpills cybersecurity blog

https://darkpills.com/wordpress-tatsu-builder-preauth-rce-cve-2021-25094/

Weakness Classification(2)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 18× in last 7d / 37× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 85 of 109 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 15 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 24 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-22 21:46 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-22 21:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-grmv-gp4f-w59q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  3. 2026-10-22 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
  4. 2026-10-21 23:38 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-21 23:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-grmv-gp4f-w59q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  6. 2026-10-21 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
  7. 2026-10-21 01:28 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-21 01:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-grmv-gp4f-w59q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  9. 2026-10-20 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
  10. 2026-10-20 03:20 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-20 03:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-grmv-gp4f-w59q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  12. 2026-10-19 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
  13. 2026-10-19 03:44 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-19 03:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-grmv-gp4f-w59q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  15. 2026-10-18 05:33 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-18 05:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-grmv-gp4f-w59q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  17. 2026-10-17 07:20 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-17 07:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-grmv-gp4f-w59q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  19. 2026-10-16 09:09 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-16 09:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-grmv-gp4f-w59q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  21. 2026-10-15 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
  22. 2026-10-15 08:35 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-15 08:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-grmv-gp4f-w59q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  24. 2026-10-14 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
  25. 2026-10-14 04:52 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-10-14 04:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-grmv-gp4f-w59q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  2. 2026-10-13 00:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-grmv-gp4f-w59q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  3. 2026-10-12 19:22 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-11 23:47 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-10 19:56 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
  6. 2026-10-07 23:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
  7. 2026-10-05 17:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
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  10. 2026-09-26 15:54 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
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  42. 2026-07-23 01:58 UTCEG score recompute▲ 0.90
  43. 2026-07-22 22:45 UTCEG score recompute▼ 0.90
  44. 2026-07-22 14:06 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
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  46. 2026-07-20 17:05 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 83% · 99th percentile
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Publicly available exploits

(4 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module, 1 Exploit-DB entry, 1 GitHub PoC), as is 1 Nuclei detection template. A detection template checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. No fix is confirmed yet, so defenders should restrict or isolate affected systems accordingly until one is published.

  • Metasploitexploit/multi/http/wp_tatsu_rce✓ verified
    Published Jun 25, 2025

    Tatsu Wordpress Plugin RCE

    Open source ↗
  • Exploit-DBEDB-52260
    Published Apr 18, 2025

    Tatsu 3.3.11 - Unauthenticated RCE

    Open source ↗
  • Nucleihttp/cves/2021/CVE-2021-25094.yaml
    Published Oct 1, 2024

    Wordpress Tatsubuilder <= 3.3.11 - Remote Code Execution

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCdarkpills/CVE-2021-25094-tatsu-preauth-rce
    Published Jan 3, 2022
    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2021-25094?
CVE-2021-25094 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on April 25, 2022. The Tatsu WordPress plugin before 3.3.12 addcustomfont action can be used without prior authentication to upload a rogue zip file which is uncompressed under the WordPress's upload directory. By adding a PHP shell with a filename starting with a dot ".", this can bypass extension control…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2021-25094 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2021-25094 was published on April 25, 2022. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of April 21, 2025; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2021-25094 actively exploited?
CVE-2021-25094 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. EchelonGraph's EG-KEV model places it in Tier 2 (Weaponized), which is not evidence of exploitation: a Metasploit module exists for it. EchelonGraph does not test whether exploit code works. FIRST EPSS estimates a 83% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (99th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2021-25094?
CVE-2021-25094 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.1 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.0 (CRITICAL).
How do I remediate CVE-2021-25094?
No fix for CVE-2021-25094 is confirmed yet. Until one is published, restrict network exposure of the affected system — for example, keep it off the internet or limit it to trusted networks — and watch for a fix. The CVE record's CNA (WPScan) lists Tatsu versions 3.3.12 up to but not including 3.3.12 as affected. No release containing a fix is confirmed on record.

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