Horizontal Scrolling Announcements <= 2.6 - Contributor+ Stored XSS via Style Field
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.
CVE-2026-17005
Primary source · Revision 1
Imported from structured advisory data. Source references identify upstream records or fields; verify affected versions and your deployed configuration.
Security context
Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-17005
Horizontal scrolling announcements
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
[
{
"vendor": "Unknown",
"product": "Horizontal scrolling announcements",
"versions": [
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "0",
"versionType": "semver",
"lessThanOrEqual": "2.6"
}
],
"defaultStatus": "unknown"
}
]- Related CVEs
- CVE-2026-17005
Source reference:
/cveMetadata/cveId
Publisher severity
No explicit severity was provided.
- Event
- #8548 · Revision 1
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- Publisher date