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.

Related CVEs

CVE-2023-5001

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-rppx-qcj7-pwc2

Published

September 16, 2023 6:30 AM

Last Modified

April 4, 2024 7:42 AM

CVSS Score

5.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: July 13, 2025 6:28 AM

Data from GitHub Advisory Database. This information is provided for research and educational purposes.