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CVE-2026-17005
Unknown Horizontal scrolling announcements — Horizontal Scrolling Announcements <= 2.6 - Contributor+ Stored XSS via Style Field
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
N L H R U H H H 6.8 .0024 13.3 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Horizontal scrolling announcements unspecified —
TIMELINE
Jul 24 Reserved by WPScan
Oct 4 Published (CNA: WPScan)
Oct 5 EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2026-17005 (Unknown Horizontal scrolling announcements). Public exploit reference added.
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.
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|
| July 24, 2026 | Reserved | Reserved by WPScan |
| October 4, 2026 | Published | Published (CNA: WPScan) |
| October 5, 2026 | EXPLOIT PUBLISHED | EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2026-17005 (Unknown Horizontal scrolling announcements). Public exploit reference added. |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 1 row
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
|---|
| Unknown | Horizontal scrolling announcements | — | — | — |
About this page
This is a reference page, not a dated page of record. It assembles the complete lifecycle of CVE-2026-17005 from the CVE Program record, NVD enrichment, the CISA KEV catalog, EPSS, and OSV advisories. The box score's numbers (CVSS, EPSS, KEV status) are current as of Thursday, October 8, 2026 UTC and are re-derived as the archive grows; only dated daily editions are immutable pages of record. The authoritative source for this identifier is cve.org.
