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Medium · 6.4 CVE-2023-5001 EUVD-2023-57348GHSA-rppx-qcj7-pwc2

Horizontal scrolling announcement <= 9.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

Published Sep 16, 2023 · Updated Apr 8, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
gopiplus Horizontal scrolling announcement ≤ 9.2 —

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