CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-10168

MediumCVSS 6.4
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.30%

21th percentile - higher than 21% of all known CVEs

Summary

The Any News Ticker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'any-ticker' shortcode in all versions up to and including 3.1.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes.

Risk Assessment

Authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or above can inject arbitrary web scripts that execute when a user accesses an injected page, potentially leading to session theft or other malicious activities.

Recommendation

Update the Any News Ticker plugin to a version newer than 3.1.1 if available, or apply security patches.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

The Any News Ticker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'any-ticker' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS