CVE-2025-68894
Published: 22 January 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-68894 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 20.3th 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-2025-68894 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the ShoutOut WordPress plugin by shoutoutglobal. The issue affects ShoutOut versions from n/a through 4.0.2 and was published on 2026-01-22.
With 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), the vulnerability can be exploited by unauthenticated attackers over the network with low attack complexity, provided they induce user interaction such as clicking a malicious link. Exploitation enables script execution in the context of the victim's browser with changed scope, resulting in low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
The Patchstack advisory details this as a reflected XSS vulnerability specifically in the WordPress ShoutOut plugin version 4.0.2 and provides vulnerability data for mitigation guidance.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-3967
Vulnerability details
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in shoutoutglobal ShoutOut shoutout allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects ShoutOut: from n/a through <= 4.0.2.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS enables delivery via malicious links (T1204.001) that execute JavaScript payloads in the victim's browser (T1059.007).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly requires validation and sanitization of untrusted input before it is used in web page generation, blocking the reflected XSS payload in ShoutOut.
Requires filtering or encoding of information sent to users, preventing malicious script from being reflected in the victim's browser context.
Provides malicious-code detection and blocking mechanisms that can be configured to inspect and drop reflected XSS attempts at the application or boundary layer.