{"cve":"CVE-2026-17005","nvd":{"published":"2026-10-04T07:16:33.907","modified":"2026-10-06T15:18:12.170","status":"Deferred","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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":6.8},"cwes":["CWE-79"],"references":["https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e3973475-18c4-46a0-b0ca-24e4d2cd58ca/"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:57:46.668721662+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-17005","score":0.00229,"percentile":0.13534,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}