CVE-2025-68847
Published: 20 February 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-68847 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 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-2025-68847 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, affecting the iSape WordPress plugin. The issue impacts iSape versions from n/a through 0.72 inclusive. Published on 2026-02-20, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1 (High).
The vulnerability can be exploited over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L) and no required privileges (PR:N), though it requires user interaction (UI:R). Scope is changed (S:C), enabling attackers to execute arbitrary scripts in the context of a victim's browser upon successful reflected XSS, with low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:L/I:L/A:L).
Patchstack provides an advisory on the vulnerability in the WordPress iSape plugin version 0.72, detailing the Reflected XSS issue, available at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/isape/vulnerability/wordpress-isape-plugin-0-72-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-207590
Vulnerability details
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in itex iSape isape allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects iSape: from n/a through <= 0.72.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS enables arbitrary JS execution in victim browser context, directly facilitating browser session hijacking (T1185) and web session cookie theft (T1539).
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Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly requires validation and neutralization of untrusted input before web page generation, blocking the reflected XSS payload in iSape.
Requires filtering or encoding of information outputs to prevent execution of attacker-supplied scripts in the victim's browser context.
Can be configured to inspect and block malicious script content in HTTP requests or responses targeting the vulnerable plugin.