CVE-2025-68838
Published: 22 January 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-68838 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 3.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
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?
Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of the web application (T1190) via crafted malicious URLs that execute scripts in victim browsers (T1189).
NVD Description
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in expresstechsoftware MemberPress Discord Addon expresstechsoftwares-memberpress-discord-add-on allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects MemberPress Discord Addon: from n/a through <= 1.1.4.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-68838 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, affecting the MemberPress Discord Addon plugin (expresstechsoftwares-memberpress-discord-add-on) for WordPress from expresstechsoftware. This issue impacts all versions of the plugin up to and including 1.1.4, as published on 2026-01-22.
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 with low attack complexity, no required privileges, and user interaction needed. Unauthenticated attackers can exploit it by tricking victims into accessing a maliciously crafted URL or input reflected in the web page, leading to arbitrary script execution in the user's browser context with changed scope, resulting in low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/expresstechsoftwares-memberpress-discord-add-on/vulnerability/wordpress-memberpress-discord-addon-plugin-1-1-4-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
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