CVE-2026-17005
Horizontal Scrolling Announcements <= 2.6 - Contributor+ Stored XSS via Style Field
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 0.23%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 86% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- YesPublic exploitsa reference or SSVC says so
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.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits1
References tagged exploit1 reference
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e3973475-18c4-46a0-b0ca-24e4d2cd58ca/ (opens in a new tab)exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Timeline
ID reserved
By WPScan
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Medium6.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium6.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.23% · top 86% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
Unknown · Horizontal scrolling announcements
- affected ≤ 2.6
References
References1
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e3973475-18c4-46a0-b0ca-24e4d2cd58ca/ (opens in a new tab)exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-92071 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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