WordPress plugin · simple-banner
Is Simple Banner safe?
Safe on 3.3.3 or newer.
The current version, 3.3.3, is past every affected range on record (7 of 7 records list one). Keep it updated and you’re clear of them.
- Flaws on record
- 7
- High or critical
- 1
- Exploited
- none
- Current version
- 3.3.3
- Last updated
- Oct 15, 2026
- Active installs
- 50,000+
Every recorded flaw
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Sep 6, 2022Simple Banner: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2022-2515 · affects up to 2.11.0 · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.4
- 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
- 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
Records come from the National Vulnerability Database, published by the researchers who found each flaw (Wordfence, Patchstack, WPScan and others); exploited status from CISA; exploit odds from FIRST’s EPSS; current version, installs and closures from wordpress.org, checked daily. Want every plugin on your site checked at once? Run the free website check.
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