Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-68874

High

Published: 08 January 2026

Published
08 January 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 0.0003 7.3th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

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

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

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.
T1185 Browser Session Hijacking Collection
Adversaries may take advantage of security vulnerabilities and inherent functionality in browser software to change content, modify user-behaviors, and intercept information as part of various browser session hijacking techniques.
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.

Confidence: HIGH · 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 neutralization of untrusted inputs before they are used in web page generation, preventing the reflected XSS payload in the Visitor Stats Widget.

prevent

Requires filtering of information outputs to remove or encode potentially malicious script content, blocking reflected XSS from executing in victims' browsers.

preventdetect

Provides mechanisms to detect and block malicious code (scripts) delivered via reflected inputs in the vulnerable plugin.

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