CVE-2025-68892
Published: 08 January 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-68892 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-2025-68892 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the Scroll RSS Excerpt WordPress plugin developed by gopiplus@hotmail.com. The issue affects all versions of the plugin from n/a through 5.0 inclusive. Published on 2026-01-08, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1.
Attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), requiring no privileges (PR:N) but user interaction (UI:R), and it results in a changed scope (S:C) with low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:L/I:L/A:L). A remote unauthenticated attacker could craft malicious input, such as a specially crafted link or request, tricking a user into interacting with a vulnerable WordPress site running the affected plugin, thereby injecting and executing arbitrary scripts in the victim's browser context.
The Patchstack advisory provides details on this WordPress plugin vulnerability, accessible at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/scroll-rss-excerpt/vulnerability/wordpress-scroll-rss-excerpt-plugin-5-0-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-1518
Vulnerability details
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in gopiplus@hotmail.com Scroll rss excerpt scroll-rss-excerpt allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Scroll rss excerpt: from n/a through <= 5.0.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables remote exploitation of the web app (T1190) via crafted links (T1566.002) to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the victim browser (T1059.007).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly requires validation and neutralization of untrusted input before it is reflected in web page output, blocking the crafted XSS payload in the Scroll RSS Excerpt plugin.
Requires filtering or encoding of information sent to users, preventing arbitrary script execution from reflected user-supplied data in plugin-generated pages.
Enables monitoring of web requests and anomalous input patterns that could indicate attempted reflected XSS exploitation against the vulnerable plugin.