CVE-2024-13357 Ditty – Responsive News Tickers, Sliders, and Lists < 3.1.52 - Author+ Stored XSS
High-privilege users can inject malicious scripts via unsanitized settings, leading to stored XSS attacks in the Ditty WordPress plugin.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-13357?
CVE-2024-13357 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Ditty, published on 15 May 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
The Ditty WordPress plugin before 3.1.52 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as author to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-13357?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Metaphorcreations Ditty.
How do I fix CVE-2024-13357?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-13357 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.
Is CVE-2024-13357 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-13357 exists.
Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Ditty
- CVE-2025-8085 Ditty < 3.1.58 - Unauthenticated SSRF
- CVE-2023-23874 WordPress Ditty Plugin <= 3.0.32 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
- CVE-2024-6715 Ditty 3.1.39-3.1.45 - Author+ Stored XSS
- CVE-2023-4148 Ditty < 3.1.25 - Reflected XSS
- CVE-2022-0533 Ditty (formerly Ditty News Ticker) < 3.0.15 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Sources
Also known as GHSA-pvvp-x3x5-w98p.