Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-68844

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-2025-68844 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-2025-68844 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the DaleAB Membee Login WordPress plugin (membees-member-login-widget). This issue affects all versions of the plugin from unknown initial release through 2.3.6.

The vulnerability can be exploited by an unauthenticated remote attacker (AV:N/PR:N) over the network with low attack complexity (AC:L), though it requires user interaction such as visiting a maliciously crafted link (UI:R). Successful exploitation enables script injection in the victim's browser context with changed scope (S:C), resulting in low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:L/I:L/A:L), for a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1.

Mitigation details are available in advisories such as the Patchstack database entry at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/membees-member-login-widget/vulnerability/wordpress-membee-login-plugin-2-3-6-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in DaleAB Membee Login membees-member-login-widget allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Membee Login: from n/a through <= 2.3.6.

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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T1059.007 JavaScript Execution
Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.
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Why these techniques?

Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of the web application (T1190) to inject and execute arbitrary JavaScript in the victim's browser (T1059.007).

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 it is used in web page generation, preventing the reflected XSS payload from being executed.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering good match
prevent

Requires filtering or encoding of information output to users, which would neutralize script content injected via the vulnerable login widget.

SI-3 Malicious Code Protection partial match
preventdetect

Provides mechanisms to detect and block malicious code (scripts) delivered through web requests or responses to the affected plugin.

References