CVE-2025-69102
Published: 22 January 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-69102 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 5.4th 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-2025-69102 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the WP Test Email WordPress plugin developed by Boopathi Rajan. This issue affects the wp-test-email plugin from its initial release through version 1.1.7.
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 network accessibility, low attack complexity, no required privileges, and user interaction needed for exploitation, with a changed scope. Remote attackers can exploit it by tricking authenticated or unauthenticated users into interacting with malicious input, such as a crafted link or payload reflected in the web page, potentially leading to limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, such as session hijacking or script execution in the user's browser context.
The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/wp-test-email/vulnerability/wordpress-wp-test-email-plugin-1-1-7-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve documents this reflected XSS vulnerability in the WordPress WP Test Email plugin version 1.1.7.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-3931
Vulnerability details
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Boopathi Rajan WP Test Email wp-test-email allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects WP Test Email: from n/a through <= 1.1.7.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of the web application (T1190) and facilitates JavaScript execution in the victim browser context (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 into web page output, preventing the reflected XSS payload in wp-test-email.
Requires filtering or encoding of information output to browsers, blocking execution of attacker-supplied scripts reflected by the vulnerable plugin.
Provides malicious code inspection and blocking mechanisms that can detect or stop reflected XSS payloads delivered via crafted URLs to the plugin.