[ CVE-2026-17005 · Published 4 Oct 2026 ]
Vulnerability in Unknown Horizontal scrolling announcements
CVSS 6.8
EPSS <1%No fix listed yet
[ Description ]Official 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.
[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches
No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.