CVE-2025-69368
Published: 20 February 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-69368 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 JavaScript (T1059.007); ranked at the 13.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Likely Mitigating ControlsAI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
DOM-based XSS (CWE-79) directly enables arbitrary JavaScript execution in the victim's browser context.
NVD Description
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in GT3themes SOHO - Photography WordPress Theme soho allows DOM-Based XSS.This issue affects SOHO - Photography WordPress Theme: from n/a through <= 3.0.3.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-69368 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, enabling DOM-based Cross-site Scripting (XSS) as classified under CWE-79. It affects the GT3themes SOHO - Photography WordPress Theme (soho), impacting all versions from n/a through 3.0.3. Published on 2026-02-20T16:22:21.020, 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).
Remote attackers require no privileges and can exploit this over the network with low attack complexity, though user interaction is necessary. Successful exploitation changes scope, granting low-level impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, such as executing scripts in the victim's browser context to potentially steal session data or perform other client-side actions.
The Patchstack advisory provides further details on this WordPress theme vulnerability, including mitigation guidance, accessible at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Theme/soho/vulnerability/wordpress-soho-photography-wordpress-theme-theme-3-0-3-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
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