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-2026-9011 is a high severity with CVSS 7.5 Authorization Bypass issue affecting the Plugin Ditty – Responsive News Tickers, Sliders, and Lists. It affects Versions up to 3.1.65 and is fixed in 3.1.66.
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CVE-2026-9011 is tracked for the Plugin Ditty – Responsive News Tickers, Sliders, and Lists as high severity with CVSS 7.5. The affected range is Versions up to 3.1.65. Update Ditty – Responsive News Tickers, Sliders, and Lists to 3.1.66 or newer where that version is compatible with the site.
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| Software Type | Plugin |
|---|---|
| Software Slug |
ditty-news-ticker
View on wordpress.org
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| CVE | CVE-2026-9011 |
| Patched Versions |
3.1.66
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| Affected Versions |
Versions up to 3.1.65
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These internal links group the same WordPress plugin by CVE, issue type, severity, and patch status so operators and search engines can connect the full vulnerability cluster.
Ditty – Responsive News Tickers, Sliders, and Lists <= 3.1.38 - Authenticated (Contributor+) PHP Object Injection
Ditty <= 3.1.57 - Unauthenticated Server-Side Request Forgery
Ditty <= 3.1.58 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Ditty <= 3.1.51 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Ditty <= 3.1.46 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Ditty 3.1.39 - 3.1.45 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Ditty – Responsive News Tickers, Sliders, and Lists <= 3.1.44 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Ditty – Responsive News Tickers, Sliders, and Lists <= 3.1.42 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
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