CVE-2025-11267

XSS

Published

18 November 2025

Modified

15 April 2026

CVSS Score v3.1 6.4

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Raw vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS Score 0.0023 14th percentile

Risk Priority 45 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2025-11267 is a medium-severity Basic XSS (CWE-80) vulnerability in Wordpress (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 6.4 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Content Injection (T1659); ranked at the 14th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SA-11 (Developer Testing and Evaluation) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-197955

Vulnerability Data

The VK All in One Expansion Unit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the '_veu_custom_css' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 9.112.1. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on the…

user-supplied Custom CSS value. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

CWE(s): CWE-80

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1659 Content Injection Initial Access

Adversaries may gain access and continuously communicate with victims by injecting malicious content into systems through online network traffic.

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T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie Credential Access

An adversary may steal web application or service session cookies and use them to gain access to web applications or Internet services as an authenticated user without needing credentials.

attack.mitre.org →

T1189 Drive-by Compromise Initial Access

Adversaries may gain access to a system through a user visiting a website over the normal course of browsing.

attack.mitre.org →

Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

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Affected Assets

Wordpress

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inferred from references and description; NVD did not file a CPE for this CVE

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent

Stop it (NIST 800-53)

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Detect

Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

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Harden

Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

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Validate

Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)

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V1.3.1
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V1.3.4

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SA-11 Developer Testing and Evaluation good match

Developer testing and evaluation can discover missing or incorrect neutralization of script tags through targeted XSS test cases.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match

Input validation explicitly requires checking and neutralizing untrusted web inputs containing script-related characters before they reach a downstream renderer.

SA-8 Security and Privacy Engineering Principles partial match

Secure engineering principles include mandatory output encoding and neutralization of HTML metacharacters to stop injection at the source.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-06 mostly match

prevents

Secure SDLC practices directly require output encoding and input validation that prevent basic XSS.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

A.8.29 Security testing in development and acceptance mostly match

finds

Security testing in development catches unneutralized script tags before release.

A.8.25 Secure development life cycle partial match

prevents

Secure SDLC mandates input validation and output encoding that directly prevent basic XSS.

A.8.26 Application security requirements partial match

prevents

Application security requirements explicitly call for neutralization of script-related HTML tags.

A.8.28 Secure coding partial match

prevents

Secure coding standards require proper escaping of <, >, & to block XSS.