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CVE-2025-13656

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-13656 describes a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in the Cute News Ticker WordPress plugin, affecting all versions up to and including 1.0. This flaw allows authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access or higher to inject malicious web scripts through the 'color' shortcode attribute due to insufficient input sanitization. Rated as Medium severity (CVSS 6.4), the vulnerability has a low attack complexity and can lead to information disclosure and integrity compromise when an affected page is viewed. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
ArnabkumarCute News Ticker
>= 0, <= 1.0CNA affecteddefault unaffected

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.4MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.1
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.21%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
10.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0021 is in the 9th percentile among its peer group of 21,977 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org / browser/cute-news-ticker/tags/1.0/main-function.php
plugins.trac.wordpress.org / browser/cute-news-ticker/trunk/main-function.php
wordpress.org / plugins/cute-news-ticker
wordfence.com / threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/92f53507-4475-401b-b57c-f6652a868be9