CVE-2023-4646: Sayandatta Simple Posts Ticker

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Simple Posts Ticker WordPress plugin before 1.1.6 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Affected products

• Sayandatta Simple Posts Ticker: before 1.1.6 (fixed in 1.1.6)

Published 2023-10-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.