WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
Horizontal Scrolling Announcements <= 2.6 - Contributor+ Stored XSS via Style Field
Description
The plugin 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.
Proof of Concept
Affects Plugins
No known fix References
CVE
Classification
Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
testoun
Submitter
testoun
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2026-10-01 (about 2 days ago)
Added
2026-09-24 (about 9 days ago)
Last Updated
2026-09-24 (about 9 days ago)
