Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-69085

High

Published: 06 January 2026

Published
06 January 2026
Modified
23 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-2025-69085 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-2025-69085 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 JobBank WordPress plugin. This issue affects JobBank versions from n/a through 1.2.2 and was published on 2026-01-06T17:15:45.413.

The vulnerability has 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 it is exploitable remotely over the network by unauthenticated attackers with low attack complexity, though it requires user interaction. Attackers can craft malicious payloads that reflect user input during web page generation, tricking victims into executing scripts in their browser context within the site's scope, potentially enabling theft of session data, defacement, or other low-impact actions on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/jobbank/vulnerability/wordpress-jobbank-plugin-1-2-2-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve provides details on this Reflected XSS vulnerability in the WordPress JobBank plugin version 1.2.2.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in e-plugins JobBank jobbank allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects JobBank: from n/a through <= 1.2.2.

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 the web application (T1190) and arbitrary JavaScript execution in victim browsers (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

Requires validation and neutralization of all user-supplied input before it is reflected into web page responses, directly blocking the reflected XSS payload in JobBank <=1.2.2.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering good match
prevent

Mandates filtering or encoding of information sent to users, preventing untrusted script content from being reflected back in the plugin's web page generation.

SI-3 Malicious Code Protection partial match
preventdetect

Deploys mechanisms to detect and block malicious code (scripts) in inputs or outputs, providing secondary protection against the reflected XSS vectors described in the CVE.

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