CVE-2025-68835
Published: 22 January 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-68835 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 Browser Session Hijacking (T1185); 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-2025-68835 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the Ravpage WordPress plugin by matiskiba. The issue affects Ravpage versions from unknown initial release through 2.33 inclusive. Published on 2026-01-22, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1.
Attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), requiring no privileges (PR:N) but user interaction (UI:R), such as clicking a malicious link. The changed scope (S:C) enables cross-origin effects, resulting in low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:L/I:L/A:L). Exploitation typically allows injection of malicious scripts into web pages viewed by users, potentially leading to session hijacking or data theft in the context of the affected site.
The Patchstack advisory documents this Reflected XSS vulnerability specifically in WordPress Ravpage plugin version 2.33 and provides further technical details.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-4015
Vulnerability details
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in matiskiba Ravpage ravpage allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Ravpage: from n/a through <= 2.33.
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Related Threats
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Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS directly enables injection of scripts into user browsers, facilitating session hijacking as noted in the description.
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Mitigating Controls
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Requires validation and sanitization of all web input before page generation, directly blocking the reflected XSS payload injection in Ravpage.
Mandates filtering or encoding of output data to neutralize script tags and attributes, preventing malicious scripts from executing in users' browsers.
Enables detection and blocking of injected malicious scripts at the application boundary before they reach the reflected XSS sink in the plugin.