The Horizontal scrolling announcement plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'horizontal-scrolling' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 9.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-57348 The Horizontal scrolling announcement for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'horizontal-scrolling' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 9.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
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History

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:30:00 +0000

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Description The Horizontal scrolling announcement for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'horizontal-scrolling' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 9.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The Horizontal scrolling announcement plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'horizontal-scrolling' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 9.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Title Horizontal scrolling announcement <= 9.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 20:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-08T17:25:56.578Z

Reserved: 2023-09-15T16:11:07.798Z

Link: CVE-2023-5001

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:44:53.290Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-09-16T05:15:45.000

Modified: 2026-04-08T19:18:41.453

Link: CVE-2023-5001

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