Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Cute News Ticker for WordPress
CVE-2025-13656

6.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
Cute News Ticker
Vendor
CVE Published:
6 December 2025

What is CVE-2025-13656?

The Cute News Ticker plugin for WordPress has a significant vulnerability that allows authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access or higher to inject malicious web scripts via the 'color' shortcode attribute. Due to inadequate input sanitization and output escaping, these scripts can execute when a user visits any page that has been compromised, thereby posing a serious risk to website integrity and user data.

Affected Version(s)

Cute News Ticker * <= 1.0

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://wordpress.org/plugins/cute-news-ticker/
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cute-news-tick...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Camilla Flocco
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CVE-2025-13656 : Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Cute News Ticker for WordPress