Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 4, 2026

CVE-2026-17005

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.

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Affected products

WordPress/Horizontal Scrolling Announcementsllm-fuzzy
Range: <=2.6
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/horizontal-scrolling-announcements

Patches

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References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/e3973475-18c4-46a0-b0ca-24e4d2cd58ca/nvd

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