CVE-2025-10168 Any News Ticker <= 3.1.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Authenticated attackers with contributor access can inject arbitrary scripts via the Any News Ticker shortcode, leading to stored XSS execution on victim pages.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-10168?
CVE-2025-10168 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in mucasoft Any News Ticker, published on 30 Sep 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Any News Ticker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'any-ticker' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-10168?
How do I fix CVE-2025-10168?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-10168 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-2025-10168 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-10168 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-vf95-jwm4-648w.