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    CVE-2026-17005

    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.

    Published:Oct 4, 2026
    Last Modified:Oct 5, 2026
    EPS:Oct 4, 2026
    EPSS Score:0.00152
    CVSS Score:6.8

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Wordpress-extensions
    Product
    Horizontal Scrolling Announcements

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
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    Physical
    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Required
    Scope
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    Changed
    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
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    High