WordPress Ditty Plugin Unauthenticated Content Disclosure

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.

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Analysis

The Ditty – Responsive News Tickers, Sliders, and Lists WordPress plugin contains a critical authorization bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-9011, CVSS 7.5) affecting all versions through 3.1.65. The vulnerability stems from improper authorization checks on the ditty_init AJAX endpoint, allowing unauthenticated attackers to enumerate post IDs and retrieve sensitive, non-public content including draft posts, pending reviews, scheduled content, and disabled entries. This affects any WordPress site using the vulnerable plugin, exposing editorial workflows, unpublished announcements, and confidential information that should remain hidden from the public.

Casky's 261 mapped security skills leverage Claude AI's extended reasoning to detect the attack patterns associated with this vulnerability across two key MITRE ATT&ACK techniques: TA0004 (Privilege Escalation) and TA0006 (Credential Access). Practitioners using Casky would identify suspicious AJAX requests to the ditty_init endpoint with sequential or enumerated post ID parameters originating from unauthenticated sessions. The platform's skills would flag anomalous patterns such as repeated requests targeting non-public post statuses, unusual parameter manipulation in AJAX calls, and access to content that should require WordPress authentication. Detection findings would highlight authorization logic gaps, missing capability checks before content retrieval, and the absence of nonce validation—enabling security teams to prioritize remediation and audit logs for unauthorized information disclosure attempts.

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261 Casky skills cover this attack pattern

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MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

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