golzarrahman GNTT Post Title Ticker Plugin up to 1.0 on WordPress Shortcode cross site scripting

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in golzarrahman GNTT Post Title Ticker Plugin up to 1.0 on WordPress. Affected is the function gntt_title_ticker_slide/gntt_title_ticker_fade/gntt_title_ticker_typing of the component Shortcode Handler. The manipulation results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2026-8701. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in golzarrahman GNTT Post Title Ticker Plugin up to 1.0 on WordPress. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is the function gntt_title_ticker_slide/gntt_title_ticker_fade/gntt_title_ticker_typing of the component Shortcode Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. This is going to have an impact on integrity. CVE summarizes:

The GNTT Post Title Ticker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in version 1.0 via the `title-ticker-slide`, `title-ticker-fade`, and `title-ticker-typing` shortcodes. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on shortcode attributes (notably `border`, `width`, `height`, `header_background`, `header_text_color`, and `id`) within the `gntt_title_ticker_slide()`, `gntt_title_ticker_fade()`, and `gntt_title_ticker_typing()` functions. None of these attribute values are passed through `esc_attr()` or any other escaping function before being concatenated into HTML output. 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.

The weakness was disclosed by Nail Majdeddine. The advisory is shared for download at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-8701 since 05/15/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• golzarrahman

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• GNTT Post Title Ticker Plugin

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• 1.0

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