CVE-2025-68846
Published: 20 February 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-68846 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 JavaScript (T1059.007); ranked at the 13.9th 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 enables arbitrary JavaScript execution in victim browsers via malicious links (user interaction), directly mapping to JS interpreter execution and phishing/user-execution delivery vectors.
NVD Description
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Paris Holley Asynchronous Javascript asynchronous-javascript allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Asynchronous Javascript: from n/a through <= 1.3.5.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-68846 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the Asynchronous Javascript WordPress plugin developed by Paris Holley. The plugin, known as asynchronous-javascript, is affected in all versions from n/a through 1.3.5.
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. Remote attackers can exploit it by tricking authenticated or unauthenticated users into interacting with crafted input reflected in web pages, achieving low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability within a changed security scope.
The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/asynchronous-javascript/vulnerability/wordpress-asynchronous-javascript-plugin-1-3-5-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve provides details on this Reflected XSS vulnerability specific to the WordPress Asynchronous Javascript plugin version 1.3.5. Security practitioners should consult this reference for mitigation guidance, such as updating to a patched version if available.
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