Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-68890

High

Published: 08 January 2026

Published
08 January 2026
Modified
27 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 0.0003 7.3th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-68890 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-2025-68890 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as DOM-based Cross-site Scripting (XSS, CWE-79), in the hands01 e-shops e-shops-cart2 WordPress plugin. This issue affects all versions from n/a through 1.0.4, as published on 2026-01-08.

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 privileges required, and user interaction needed. Attackers without authentication can target users interacting with affected sites, achieving a changed scope with low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The Patchstack advisory provides details on this reflected XSS vulnerability in the e-shops-cart2 WordPress plugin version 1.0.4, available at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/e-shops-cart2/vulnerability/wordpress-e-shops-plugin-1-0-4-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in hands01 e-shops e-shops-cart2 allows DOM-Based XSS.This issue affects e-shops: from n/a through <= 1.0.4.

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?

Reflected/DOM-based XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of the web application (T1190) and arbitrary JavaScript execution in the victim's browser context (T1059.007).

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

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Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

Requires validation and sanitization of all web inputs before they are used in DOM or page generation, directly blocking the improper neutralization that enables this reflected/DOM-based XSS.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering good match
prevent

Mandates filtering or encoding of information outputs in web responses, preventing attacker-supplied scripts from executing in the browser context of the affected e-shops-cart2 plugin.

SI-3 Malicious Code Protection partial match
preventdetect

Deploys malicious-code detection mechanisms that can identify and block XSS payloads delivered through the vulnerable cart2 plugin endpoints.

References