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CVE-2026-17005: Horizontal Scrolling Announcements <= 2.6 - Contributor+ Stored XSS via Style Field
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-10-04 · updated 2026-10-06
- Weakness: CWE-79
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.
Affected products
- Horizontal scrolling announcements: through 2.6
References
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