CVE-2025-67984
Published: 20 February 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-67984 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 Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 13.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Threat & Defense at a Glance
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Likely Mitigating ControlsAI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
DOM-based XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of the web application (T1190) and facilitates drive-by compromise by injecting/executing scripts in victim browsers via malicious links (T1189).
NVD Description
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in calliko NPS computy nps-computy allows DOM-Based XSS.This issue affects NPS computy: from n/a through <= 2.8.2.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-67984 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, manifesting as DOM-based Cross-site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79), in the NPS Computy WordPress plugin by Calliko. The issue affects the plugin from an unspecified initial version through 2.8.2.
The vulnerability carries 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 exploitation is possible over the network with low attack complexity, no privileges required, but user interaction is needed. Remote attackers can trick users into performing actions such as visiting a malicious link, leading to script execution in the victim's browser context with changed scope, resulting in low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/nps-computy/vulnerability/wordpress-nps-computy-plugin-2-8-2-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve documents this as a Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability specifically in the WordPress NPS Computy plugin version 2.8.2.
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