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WordPress Ditty plugin <= 3.1.71 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

6.5MediumCNA
Exploited
No known exploitation
Fix
No fix listed
Who is exposed
Not reported
Published
Last modified
0.22% · 13th percentile
15/100 · provisional
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

The Ditty WordPress plugin (ditty-news-ticker) has a stored cross-site scripting flaw that lets an attacker with a low-privilege account inject malicious scripts. The attacker can reach it remotely over the network, but a user must take some action before the script runs.

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Read the original description

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Metaphor Creations, LLC Ditty ditty-news-ticker allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Ditty: from n/a through 3.1.71.

cve.now Index

15Pcve.now Index 15 of 100 · methodology v3 · provisional
  • Exploitation0/40No signal
  • Exposure3/25Reachable over the network · Unknown: No advisory context yet
  • Reach?/20Unknown. No tracked technology or package matched
  • Severity6.5/10CVSS 6.5
  • No patch5/5No patch listed yet

What would change the score

  • Would score about 70 if added to CISA KEV
  • Would score about 65 if CISA's SSVC rates exploitation active
  • Would score about 34 if advisories confirm default setups are exposed

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. First seen by cve.now
  3. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  4. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • ditty-news-ticker

    through 3.1.71

Evidence 1

  1. Link

Corrections

None so far.

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Questions about CVE-2026-119493

Is CVE-2026-119493 being exploited?

It is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and CISA's SSVC assessment does not mark exploitation as active. That does not mean it has not been attacked: vendors and researchers can report attacks before CISA lists them. No public exploit code is tracked.Source: cve.now feed data

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-119493?

ditty-news-ticker: through 3.1.71.Source: cve.now feed data