---
id: CVE-2025-13656
title: >-
  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
summary: >-
  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 i…
severity: medium
cvss: 6.4
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'
cwe:
  - CWE-79
published: '2025-12-06'
updated: '2026-10-15'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-15T20:10:00.197'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-13656'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cute-news-ticker/tags/1.0/main-function.php#L60
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cute-news-ticker/trunk/main-function.php#L60
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: 'https://wordpress.org/plugins/cute-news-ticker/'
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/92f53507-4475-401b-b57c-f6652a868be9?source=cve
    label: security@wordfence.com
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.0023
epssPercentile: 0.1369
ingestedAt: '2026-10-27T18:12:09.290Z'
---

## Overview

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.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.