PT-2025-49344 · WordPress · Cute News Ticker

Camilla Flocco · Published 2025-12-06 · Updated 2025-12-06 · CVE-2025-13656

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cute News Ticker plugin for WordPress versions prior to 1.0

Description The Cute News Ticker plugin for WordPress is susceptible to Stored Cross-Site Scripting through the 'color' shortcode attribute. Insufficient input sanitization and output escaping allow authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These scripts will execute when a user accesses the affected page.

Recommendations Update the Cute News Ticker plugin to a version newer than 1.0.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-13656

Affected Products

Cute News Ticker

References · 8

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-13656 · Security Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1997189879478833341 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1997217411213283795 · Twitter Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cute-news-ticker/trunk/main-function.php#L60 · Note
• https://t.me/CVEtracker/38987 · Telegram Post
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/cute-news-ticker · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cute-news-ticker/tags/1.0/main-function.php#L60 · Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/92f53507-4475-401b-b57c-f6652a868be9?source=cve · Note