CVE-2025-68863
Published: 20 February 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-68863 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-2025-68863 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the iContact for Gravity Forms WordPress plugin developed by Zack Katz. The issue affects the gravity-forms-icontact plugin in all versions from n/a through 1.3.2 inclusive.
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 needed for exploitation, with a changed scope leading to low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Remote attackers can exploit it by tricking authenticated or unauthenticated users into interacting with maliciously crafted input, such as via a reflected payload in web page generation, enabling script execution in the victim's browser context.
Patchstack has published details on the vulnerability, including analysis for the iContact for Gravity Forms plugin version 1.3.2, available at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/gravity-forms-icontact/vulnerability/wordpress-icontact-for-gravity-forms-plugin-1-3-2-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve. Security practitioners should consult this advisory for mitigation guidance, such as updating to a patched version if available.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-207594
Vulnerability details
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Zack Katz iContact for Gravity Forms gravity-forms-icontact allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects iContact for Gravity Forms: from n/a through <= 1.3.2.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of web app via crafted links (T1190) and spearphishing with malicious URLs (T1566.002).
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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 gravity-forms-icontact.
Requires filtering or encoding of information output to browsers, preventing execution of attacker-supplied scripts reflected by the vulnerable plugin.
Provides mechanisms to detect and block malicious code (scripts) delivered via web requests to the Gravity Forms integration.