CVE-2025-67972
Published: 20 February 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-67972 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization (CWE-862) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 4.3 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 17.0th 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-2025-67972 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the fox-themes Prague prague-plugins WordPress plugin. It affects Prague versions from unknown starting points through 2.2.8. The vulnerability 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 attack complexity, no required privileges, user interaction, and changed scope with low impacts across confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Remote attackers without privileges can exploit this reflected XSS by crafting malicious payloads delivered via network requests, such as URLs with unneutralized input that gets reflected back in the generated web page. Victims must interact, typically by clicking a malicious link, enabling the attacker's script to execute in the user's browser context. This can lead to low-level impacts like minor data exposure, tampering, or denial of service within the scoped application, potentially facilitating session hijacking or phishing within the affected site.
The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/prague-plugins/vulnerability/wordpress-prague-plugin-2-2-8-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve provides details on this XSS issue in the WordPress Prague plugin version 2.2.8, including vulnerability specifics and likely patch information for mitigation.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-207583
Vulnerability details
Missing Authorization vulnerability in Zoho Mail Zoho ZeptoMail allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels. This issue affects Zoho ZeptoMail: from n/a through 3.2.9.
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Related Threats
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Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables T1190 exploitation and facilitates T1185 via script execution for session hijacking.
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Mitigating Controls
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Directly requires validation of untrusted input in URLs and web requests to block the malicious payloads that trigger reflected XSS in the Prague plugin.
Requires filtering or encoding of information returned in web responses, preventing the plugin from reflecting attacker-supplied scripts back to victims.
Restricts acceptance and execution of mobile code (scripts) delivered via web requests, limiting the ability of reflected XSS to run in the browser context.