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Horizontal Scrolling Announcements Vulnerabilities

2 known security issues reported for the Horizontal Scrolling Announcements WordPress plugin. Most recent disclosed Oct 1, 2026.

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Horizontal Scrolling Announcements <= 2.6 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

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The Horizontal Scrolling Announcements plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in all versions up to, and including, 2.6. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject a...

CVSS:
6.4
(Wordfence)
Affected:
up to 2.6
Fix:
No patched version reported
Disclosed:
Oct 1, 2026

CVE-2026-17005 on NVD →

Horizontal scrolling announcements <= 2.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection via Shortcode

high

The Horizontal scrolling announcements plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the plugin's 'hsas-shortcode' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.4 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible fo...

CVSS:
8.8
(Wordfence)
Affected:
up to 2.4
Fixed in:
2.5
Disclosed:
Aug 5, 2024

CVE-2023-5000 on NVD →

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