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Plugin · simple-banner
Simple Banner
7 known vulnerabilities on record. Add your version above to see which ones affect you.
Oct 21, 2026Simple Banner: Does not correctly limit the capabilities it grants to the user roles an administrator allows to manage its bannersCVE-2026-107506 · fixed in 3.3.3 · reported by WPScanHigh 7.5
The Simple Banner WordPress plugin before 3.3.3 does not correctly limit the capabilities it grants to the user roles an administrator allows to manage its banners, granting such roles the full administrator capability, which allows users in a low-privileged role to escalate their privileges and fully compromise the site.
Oct 22, 2025Simple Banner – Easily add multiple Banners/Bars/Notifications/Announcements to the top or bottom of your website: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2025-12033 · affects up to 3.0.10 · reported by WordfenceMedium 4.4
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 the 'pro_version_activation_code' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.10 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access, 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.
Apr 4, 2025Simple Banner – Easily add multiple Banners/Bars/Notifications/Announcements to the top or bottom of your website: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2024-13898 · affects up to 3.0.5 · reported by WordfenceMedium 4.4
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.
Mar 25, 2025Simple Banner: Does not sanitise and escape some of its settingsCVE-2024-12769 · fixed in 3.0.4 · reported by WPScanLow 3.5
The Simple Banner WordPress plugin before 3.0.4 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).
Sep 6, 2022Simple Banner: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2022-2515 · affects up to 2.11.0 · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.4
The Simple Banner plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the `pro_version_activation_code` parameter in versions up to, and including, 2.11.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, including those without administrative capabilities when access is granted to those users, to inject arbitrary web scripts in page that will execute whenever a user role having access to "Simple Banner" accesses the plugin's settings.
Aug 22, 2022Simple Banner: Does not properly sanitize its "Simple Banner Text" Settings allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks evenCVE-2022-0446 · fixed in 2.12.0 · reported by WPScanMedium 4.8
The Simple Banner WordPress plugin before 2.12.0 does not properly sanitize its "Simple Banner Text" Settings allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.
Aug 23, 2021Simple Banner: Does not sanitise and escape one of its settingsCVE-2021-24574 · fixed in 2.10.4 · reported by WPScanMedium 4.8
The Simple Banner WordPress plugin before 2.10.4 does not sanitise and escape one of its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to use Cross-Site Scripting payload even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.
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