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WordPress News Announcement Scroll Plugin <= 8.8.8 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

Patch within 30 days Low priority
Not known to be exploited Report an attack
4.8
Medium severity CVSS 3.1 score

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Solution

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Update the WordPress News Announcement Scroll plugin to the latest available version (at least 9.0.0).

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Mika discovered and reported this Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress News Announcement Scroll Plugin. This could allow a malicious actor to inject malicious scripts, such as redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into your website which will be executed when guests visit your site. This vulnerability has been fixed in version 9.0.0.

No other known vulnerabilities for this plugin

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