Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-69056

High

Published: 22 January 2026

Published
22 January 2026
Modified
15 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 0.0006 20.3th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-69056 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 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-2025-69056 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the e-plugins Hotel Listing (hotel-listing) WordPress plugin. This issue affects all versions from n/a through 1.4.0, as 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 any network-accessible attacker with low attack complexity, requiring no privileges but relying on user interaction, such as a victim clicking a malicious link or visiting a crafted page. Successful exploitation changes the security scope, enabling limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, typically allowing arbitrary JavaScript execution in the victim's browser within the site's context to steal session data or perform other client-side actions.

Patchstack's advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/hotel-listing/vulnerability/wordpress-hotel-listing-plugin-1-4-0-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve documents this Reflected XSS vulnerability in the Hotel Listing plugin version 1.4.0.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in e-plugins Hotel Listing hotel-listing allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Hotel Listing: from n/a through <= 1.4.0.

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 XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of internet-facing web apps (T1190) and arbitrary JavaScript execution in browser (T1059.007).

Confidence: HIGH · 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

Directly requires validation and sanitization of all web inputs before reflection into HTML responses, blocking the reflected XSS payload in hotel-listing <=1.4.0.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering good match
prevent

Mandates output filtering/encoding of untrusted data rendered in web pages, neutralizing the reflected script before it executes in the victim's browser.

SI-3 Malicious Code Protection partial match
preventdetect

Deploys malicious-code detection mechanisms that can identify and block common reflected XSS script patterns delivered via crafted URLs.

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