CVE-2025-68864

High

Published: 22 January 2026

Published

22 January 2026

Modified

23 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 0.0002 5.4th percentile

Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-68864 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 5.4th 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-2025-68864 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Stored Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, affecting the Infility Global WordPress plugin (infility-global). Published on 2026-01-22, it impacts all versions from n/a through 2.15.11 and 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).

Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely with low attack complexity, though it requires user interaction. By injecting malicious payloads that are stored and persist on the site, attackers can execute scripts in the context of other users viewing affected pages, potentially leading to low-impact confidentiality, integrity, and availability violations with a changed scope.

The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/infility-global/vulnerability/wordpress-infility-global-plugin-2-14-49-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve provides details on this WordPress plugin vulnerability, including mitigation guidance.

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-3998

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Infility Infility Global infility-global allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Infility Global: from n/a through <= 2.15.11.

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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T1059.007 JavaScript Execution

Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.

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Why these techniques?

Stored XSS directly enables remote exploitation of a public-facing web app (T1190) to execute attacker-controlled JavaScript in victim browsers (T1059.007).

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