CVE-2025-68880
Published: 20 February 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-68880 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 Malicious Link (T1204.001); ranked at the 13.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Likely Mitigating ControlsAI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS via crafted URL directly requires user interaction with malicious link (T1204.001) and enables browser session hijacking through script execution in victim context (T1185).
NVD Description
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in peterwsterling Simple Archive Generator simple-archive-generator allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Simple Archive Generator: from n/a through <= 5.2.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-68880 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, enabling Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) as classified under CWE-79, in the Simple Archive Generator WordPress plugin developed by peterwsterling. This issue affects the plugin from unknown initial versions through version 5.2 inclusive. Published on 2026-02-20, it 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).
A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability over the network with low attack complexity by tricking an authenticated user into interacting with malicious input, such as a crafted URL or form submission. Exploitation requires user interaction but results in changed scope, allowing limited impacts: low confidentiality (e.g., potential exposure of sensitive data in the victim's session), low integrity (e.g., modification of page content), and low availability.
The Patchstack advisory provides further details on this vulnerability at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/simple-archive-generator/vulnerability/wordpress-simple-archive-generator-plugin-5-2-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve, including recommended mitigation steps.
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