What is CVE-2026-93339?

CVE-2026-93339 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Metaphor Creations Ditty, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2026-09-21.

How severe is CVE-2026-93339?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

XSS in Metaphor Creations Ditty

CVE-2026-93339

Metaphor Creations Ditty (ditty-news-ticker) before 3.1.70 contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability that allows authenticated users with Author-level privileges or higher to inject arbitrary HTML elements by supplying malicious wrapper attribute values in layout tags. The ditty_layout_render_tag_wrapper() function inserts caller-supplied wrapper attribute values directly as HTML element names without allowlist validation, bypassing wp_kses_post() sanitization because KSES runs at save time before layout tag attributes are resolved at render time, causing the payload to execute in the browser of any visitor viewing posts or pages embedding the affected Ditty item.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Metaphor Creations Ditty

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

disclosure@vulncheck.com (release-notes, patch)
disclosure@vulncheck.com (third-party-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-93339?: CVE-2026-93339 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Metaphor Creations Ditty, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2026-09-21.
How severe is CVE-2026-93339?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.