Security Advisory
CVE-2023-5432
CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations
Description
The Jquery news ticker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via jquery-news-ticker shortcode in versions up to, and including, 3.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.