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Simple Banner – An easy to use Banner/Bar/Notification/Announcement for the top or bottom of your website, CVE-2024-13898

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2024-13898

Published on
Apr 04, 2025
Research Description
The Simple Banner – Easily add multiple Banners/Bars/Notifications/Announcements to the top or bottom of your website plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.
Affected versions
max 3.0.5.
Status
vulnerable