CVE-2025-68874
Published: 08 January 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-68874 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 7.3th 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-2025-68874 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, enabling Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) as classified under CWE-79. It affects the Shahjada Visitor Stats Widget (visitor-stats-widget) WordPress plugin in all versions from n/a through 1.5.0.
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 exploitation is possible over the network with low attack complexity, no required privileges, and user interaction such as clicking a malicious link. Remote attackers can deliver payloads via reflected inputs, achieving limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability within a changed scope, such as executing scripts in the context of a victim's browser session.
Patchstack's advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/visitor-stats-widget/vulnerability/wordpress-visitor-stats-widget-plugin-1-5-0-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve documents the Reflected XSS vulnerability specific to Visitor Stats Widget plugin version 1.5.0.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-1506
Vulnerability details
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Shahjada Visitor Stats Widget visitor-stats-widget allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Visitor Stats Widget: from n/a through <= 1.5.0.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of web application (T1190) with JavaScript execution in victim browser (T1059.007) and session hijacking (T1185) via malicious link delivery.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly requires validation and neutralization of untrusted inputs before they are used in web page generation, preventing the reflected XSS payload in the Visitor Stats Widget.
Requires filtering of information outputs to remove or encode potentially malicious script content, blocking reflected XSS from executing in victims' browsers.
Provides mechanisms to detect and block malicious code (scripts) delivered via reflected inputs in the vulnerable plugin.