CVE-2025-13656

MEDIUM 6.4

Cute News Ticker <= 1.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'color' Shortcode Attribute

CVSS Score

6.4

EPSS Score

0.0%

EPSS Percentile

0th

The Cute News Ticker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'color' shortcode attribute in all versions up to, and including, 1.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

CWE	CWE-79
Vendor	arnabkumar
Product	cute news ticker
Published	Dec 6, 2025
Last Updated	Apr 8, 2026

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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Scope

Confidentiality

Integrity

Availability

Affected Versions

arnabkumar / Cute News Ticker

0 ≤ 1.0

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗

wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/92f53507-4475-401b-b57c-f6652a868be9?source=cve wordpress.org: https://wordpress.org/plugins/cute-news-ticker/ plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cute-news-ticker/trunk/main-function.php#L60 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cute-news-ticker/tags/1.0/main-function.php#L60

Credits

Camilla Flocco