CVE-2026-17005

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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.

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e3973475-18c4-46a0-b0ca-24e4d2cd58ca/

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-92071

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-10-04

Updated: 2026-10-06

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 8.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00235