Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-68495

High

Published: 20 February 2026

Published
20 February 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 0.0004 14.4th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-68495 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 14.4th 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-2025-68495 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the Crocoblock JetEngine plugin (jet-engine) for WordPress. This issue affects JetEngine versions from n/a through 3.8.0 and was published on 2026-02-20.

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 needed for exploitation. Remote attackers can exploit it by tricking authenticated or unauthenticated users into interacting with malicious input, such as clicking crafted links, leading to limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with a changed scope.

The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/jet-engine/vulnerability/wordpress-jetengine-plugin-3-8-0-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve documents this Reflected XSS vulnerability in JetEngine 3.8.0, providing details for WordPress site administrators on detection and response.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Crocoblock JetEngine jet-engine allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects JetEngine: from n/a through <= 3.8.0.

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 applications.

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 and neutralization of untrusted input before web page generation, blocking the reflected XSS payload in JetEngine.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering good match
prevent

Mandates output filtering/encoding of user-supplied data rendered in responses, preventing execution of attacker-controlled scripts via crafted links.

AC-4 Information Flow Enforcement partial match
prevent

Enforces information flow rules that can sanitize or restrict untrusted data crossing trust boundaries into dynamically generated web content.

References