---
id: CVE-2025-10168
title: >-
  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 …
summary: >-
  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 …
severity: medium
cvss: 6.4
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'
cwe:
  - CWE-79
published: '2025-09-30'
updated: '2026-10-09'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-09T09:10:00.213'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-10168'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/any-news-ticker/trunk/src/ticker-main.php#L66
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: 'https://wordpress.org/plugins/any-news-ticker'
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c0e7bcae-fcb9-4802-b5f5-9c07a2038baa?source=cve
    label: security@wordfence.com
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.00302
epssPercentile: 0.21012
ingestedAt: '2026-10-09T09:31:00.996Z'
---

## Overview

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.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.