Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-68854

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 0.0001 3.1th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-68854 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.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-15 (Information Output Filtering).

Deeper analysis

CVE-2025-68854 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, enabling DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), in the ID Arrays WordPress plugin by harman79. This issue affects the plugin from unknown initial versions through 2.1.2, as identified under CWE-79.

Unauthenticated remote attackers can exploit the vulnerability over the network with low attack complexity, though it requires user interaction. Exploitation changes the scope and results in low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, earning 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).

Mitigation guidance is available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/id-arrays/vulnerability/wordpress-id-arrays-plugin-2-1-2-post-based-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve, published alongside the CVE on 2026-02-20.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in harman79 ID Arrays id-arrays allows DOM-Based XSS.This issue affects ID Arrays: from n/a through <= 2.1.2.

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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Why these techniques?

XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of web application via crafted input (reflected/DOM-based), matching T1190 for initial access to affect users or data.

Confidence: MEDIUM · 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 web page generation, preventing the DOM-based XSS flaw in the plugin.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering good match
prevent

Requires filtering/sanitization of information outputs to block script injection into rendered pages, addressing the improper neutralization root cause.

SI-3 Malicious Code Protection partial match
preventdetect

Can enforce malicious code detection and blocking mechanisms that catch reflected or DOM XSS payloads delivered via the vulnerable plugin endpoint.

References