top or bottom of your website: Cross-site scripting
top or bottom of your website is affected by cross-site scripting. Exploitation requires an authenticated WordPress account. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed.
- Component
- top or bottom of your website
- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Apr 04, 2025
This CVE was published Apr 04, 2025 and is one of 2 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update top or bottom of your website to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical 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.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N