{"id":"CVE-2026-17005","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-17005","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:46:58.103Z","title":"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…","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.","published":"2026-10-04T07:16:34.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-06T15:18:12.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"contact@wpscan.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":6.8,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-79"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00229,"percentile":0.1354,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[{"date":"2026-10-04","score":0.00152,"percentile":0.03748}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.23%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[{"kind":"scored","label":"Newly scored","at":"2026-10-05T12:15:08.000Z","detail":{"from":null,"score":"6.8","severity":"MEDIUM","fromSeverity":null},"summary":"Now scored CVSS 6.8 MEDIUM."},{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-10-04T07:16:34.000Z","detail":{"score":null,"severity":null,"publishedAt":"2026-10-04T07:16:33.907Z"},"summary":"New CVE, medium severity (CVSS 6.8)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e3973475-18c4-46a0-b0ca-24e4d2cd58ca/","source":"contact@wpscan.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-17005","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}