CVE-2026-17005
The Horizontal scrolling announcements WordPress plugin through 2.6 does not sanitise and escape…
- Risk score
- 44/100
- CVSS
- 6.8 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.2%
- Published
- 4 Oct 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- The Horizontal scrolling announcements WordPress plugin through 2.6 does not sanitise and escape one of its announcement settings before outputting it into an attribute context on the front end, allowing users granted access to the announcement management page (Contributor and above, once permitted) to perform Stored …
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 6.8 medium
References
Original description
The Horizontal scrolling announcements WordPress plugin through 2.6 does not sanitise and escape one of its announcement settings before outputting it into an attribute context on the front end, allowing users granted access to the announcement management page (Contributor and above, once permitted) to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks that execute in the browser of anyone viewing the announcement.
Last activity 4 Oct 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.