CVE-2025-67947
Published: 22 January 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-67947 is a high-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 7.1 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique JavaScript (T1059.007); ranked at the 20.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-15 (Information Output Filtering).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-67947 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as CWE-79 (Cross-site Scripting), specifically a Reflected XSS issue in the AdForest Elementor WordPress plugin developed by scriptsbundle. The vulnerability affects all versions of the adforest-elementor plugin up to and including 3.0.11. It has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L), indicating high severity due to network accessibility, low complexity, no required privileges, user interaction, and changed scope with low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely without authentication by crafting malicious inputs that are reflected back in web page generation. Exploitation requires a victim, such as a site administrator or user, to interact with a malicious link or input, typically via a phishing vector, which triggers script execution in the victim's browser context. Successful exploitation allows limited theft of sensitive data (e.g., session cookies), minor manipulation of page content, or disruption, leveraging the changed scope to affect the site's security context.
Patchstack's advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/adforest-elementor/vulnerability/wordpress-adforest-elementor-plugin-3-0-11-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve details the vulnerability in the AdForest Elementor plugin version 3.0.11 and provides information on the XSS issue for mitigation guidance. Security practitioners should update to a patched version beyond 3.0.11 if available or apply input sanitization workarounds pending vendor fixes.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-4046
Vulnerability details
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in scriptsbundle AdForest Elementor adforest-elementor allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects AdForest Elementor: from n/a through <= 3.0.11.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS enables arbitrary JavaScript execution in browser (T1059.007) via malicious links typically delivered through phishing (T1566.002), facilitating session cookie theft (T1539).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly requires validation and neutralization of untrusted input before it is used in web page generation, blocking the reflected XSS payload at its source.
Requires filtering or encoding of information sent to users, preventing malicious script from being reflected and executed in the victim's browser context.
Provides mechanisms to detect and block malicious code (scripts) delivered via web requests or reflected responses, limiting successful XSS exploitation.