CVE-2026-17005Horizontal Scrolling Announcements <= 2.6 - Contributor+ Stored XSS via Style Field
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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.
- CVSS
- 6.8 MEDIUM (v3.1, CISA ADP)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-79
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- WPScan
- NVD analysis
- Deferred
- Record last updated
- Oct 5, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
Unknown Horizontal scrolling announcements unknown:horizontal_scrolling_announcements (from the name) | through 2.6 | CNA record |
References
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e3973475-18c4-46a0-b0ca-24e4d2cd58ca/exploit, vdb-entry, technical-description
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