{"id":"CVE-2026-17005","title":"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 annou…","summary":"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 annou…","severity":"none","cwe":["CWE-79"],"product":"Horizontal scrolling announcements","affected":["horizontal_scrolling_announcements <= 2.6"],"published":"2026-10-04","updated":"2026-10-04","sourceUpdated":"2026-10-04T07:16:33.907","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-17005","references":[{"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e3973475-18c4-46a0-b0ca-24e4d2cd58ca/","label":"contact@wpscan.com"}],"tags":["nvd","cve.org"],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-04T06:55:02.313Z","slug":"CVE-2026-17005","body":"## Overview\n\nThe 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.\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":3,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":2.8,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}