Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Dec 19, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2023-5432
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.
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Affected products
2- cpe:2.3:a:gopiplus:jquery_news_ticker:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*Range: <=3.1
- Range: <=3.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
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