WordPress News Ticker for Elementor plugin <= 2.1.3 - Broken Access Control vulnerability

published 2024-12-13 22 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-52403

cvss: 4.3; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.4%; EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 38%
public exploits: 0; none known

Missing Authorization vulnerability in Plugin Devs News Ticker for Elementor news-ticker-for-elementor allows Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs.This issue affects News Ticker for Elementor: from n/a through <= 2.1.3.

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 22 mo ago (2024-12-13)

Exploit prediction

0.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 38% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	4.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Affected products

Plugin Devs News Ticker for Elementor

Classification

Weakness

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Technology feeds

WordPress rss critical rss

References

patchstack.com /database/Wordpress/Plugin/news-ticker-for-elementor/vulnerability/wordpress-news-ticker-for-elementor-plugin-
vdb-entry

Sources

CVE List CVE-2024-54278
NVD CVE-2024-54278

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Summary