Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-68011

High

Published: 22 January 2026

Published
22 January 2026
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0006 20.3th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-68011 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 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-2025-68011 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the GLS Shipping for WooCommerce plugin (gls-shipping-for-woocommerce) for WordPress. Published on 2026-01-22, it affects all versions from n/a through 1.4.0.

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 network accessibility, low attack complexity, no required privileges, and user interaction such as clicking a malicious link. Unauthenticated attackers can exploit it by crafting inputs that reflect malicious scripts on the web page, achieving low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability within a changed security scope.

The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/gls-shipping-for-woocommerce/vulnerability/wordpress-gls-shipping-for-woocommerce-plugin-1-3-3-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve provides further details on the vulnerability in the GLS Shipping for WooCommerce plugin.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in GLS GLS Shipping for WooCommerce gls-shipping-for-woocommerce allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects GLS Shipping for WooCommerce: from n/a through <= 1.4.0.

CWE(s)
CWE-79

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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Why these techniques?

Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of internet-facing web application for initial access via crafted malicious links.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

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Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

Directly requires validation, filtering, and sanitization of untrusted input before it is used in web page generation, blocking the reflected XSS payload at its source.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering good match
prevent

Requires filtering of information output to remove or encode potentially malicious content such as script tags, preventing the reflected XSS from executing in the browser.

SI-3 Malicious Code Protection partial match
preventdetect

Deploys malicious-code detection mechanisms that can identify and block common XSS vectors or anomalous script injection attempts before they reach users.

References