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.
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Sun, 04 Oct 2026 07:45:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-79

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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.
Title Horizontal Scrolling Announcements <= 2.6 - Contributor+ Stored XSS via Style Field
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-04T06:00:22.933Z

Reserved: 2026-07-24T09:48:24.498Z

Link: CVE-2026-17005

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-10-04T07:16:33.907

Modified: 2026-10-04T07:16:33.907

Link: CVE-2026-17005

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Updated: 2026-10-04T07:30:09Z

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