Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Sep 16, 2023· Updated Apr 8, 2026
CVE-2023-5001
CVE-2023-5001
Description
The Horizontal scrolling announcement plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'horizontal-scrolling' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 9.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected products
1- cpe:2.3:a:gopiplus:horizontal_scrolling_announcement:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*Range: <=9.2
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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