Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-68856

High

Published: 20 February 2026

Published
20 February 2026
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
Patch
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-2025-68856 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-2025-68856 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, enabling DOM-Based Cross-site Scripting (XSS, CWE-79), in the Mopinion Feedback Form WordPress plugin by keeswolters. This issue affects the plugin from unknown initial versions through 1.1.1.

Unauthenticated remote attackers can exploit the vulnerability over the network with low attack complexity, though it requires user interaction. Exploitation allows limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability in a changed scope, resulting in 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).

Patchstack documents the vulnerability in their database entry for the Mopinion Feedback Form WordPress plugin version 1.1.1, describing it as a reflected XSS issue; practitioners should consult https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/mopinion-feedback-form/vulnerability/wordpress-mopinion-feedback-form-plugin-1-1-1-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve for mitigation details and patch information.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in keeswolters Mopinion Feedback Form mopinion-feedback-form allows DOM-Based XSS.This issue affects Mopinion Feedback Form: from n/a through <= 1.1.1.

CWE(s)

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

Reflected/DOM-based XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of the web application (T1190) and arbitrary JavaScript execution in victim browsers (T1059.007).

Confidence: MEDIUM · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

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Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

prevent

Directly requires validation and sanitization of all web inputs to block the unneutralized DOM XSS payloads described in the CVE.

prevent

Requires filtering of information outputs to neutralize script content before it reaches the browser, addressing the reflected XSS vector.

preventdetect

Provides malicious-code inspection and blocking capabilities that can detect and stop injected scripts at the application boundary.

References