CVE-2023-5001: Gopiplus Horizontal Scrolling Announcement

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Gopiplus Horizontal Scrolling Announcement: up to and including 9.2

Published 2023-09-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.