WordPress security changelog
HIGH CVE-2026-9011 Deferred

Ditty – Responsive News Tickers, Sliders, and Lists: A security weakness

Ditty – Responsive News Tickers, Sliders, and Lists is affected by a security weakness. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation. The published affected range is <= 3.1.65.

CVE / CNA score 7.5 CVSS 3.1 · security@wordfence.com
NVD score Pending NVD has not published its own CVSS assessment.
Component
Ditty – Responsive News Tickers, Sliders, and Lists
Plugin slug
ditty-news-ticker
Affected
<= 3.1.65
Safe version
> 3.1.65
Published
May 22, 2026
Weakness
CWE-862 — Missing Authorization

This CVE was published May 22, 2026 and is one of 6 known issues for this plugin.

What to do

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update Ditty – Responsive News Tickers, Sliders, and Lists to a release after 3.1.65, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.

A safe version is available, so updating to that version or later is the preferred remediation. If an immediate update is not practical, consider a targeted application patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality.

Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.

Source record

Technical description

The Ditty – Responsive News Tickers, Sliders, and Lists plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.65. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve the full item content of non-public Dittys — including drafts, pending, scheduled, and disabled entries — by enumerating integer post IDs against the ditty_init AJAX endpoint. Unlike the non-AJAX init() counterpart, init_ajax() does not verify that the requested Ditty has a 'publish' post status before loading and returning its items, allowing content that administrators explicitly withheld from public view to be extracted.

CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

Primary and upstream sources