Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Dec 19, 2023· Updated Apr 8, 2026

CVE-2023-5432

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.

Affected products

Gopiplus/Jquery News Ticker
cpe:2.3:a:gopiplus:jquery_news_ticker:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Range: <=3.1

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3010828/jquery-news-tickernvdPatch
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d22d9414-2df9-4528-a426-dce6e83f8d44nvdThird Party Advisory
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jquery-news-ticker/trunk/jquery-news-ticker.phpnvdIssue Tracking

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