CVE-2025-10168: Any News Ticker <= 3.1.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-09-30 · updated 2026-10-09
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

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.

Affected products

mucasoft Any News Ticker: through 3.1.1

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/any-news-ticker/trunk/src/ticker-main.php#L66
https://wordpress.org/plugins/any-news-ticker
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c0e7bcae-fcb9-4802-b5f5-9c07a2038baa?source=cve

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