Known vulnerabilities in Simple Banner – Easily add multiple Banners/Bars/Notifications/Announcements to the top or bottom of your website

Display a simple banner/bar at the top or bottom of your website. Now with multi-banner support.

6Reported vulnerabilities

5.4Highest CVSS score

3.3.1Latest version

50,000+Active installs

What to do now

Update Simple Banner – Easily add multiple Banners/Bars/Notifications/Announcements to the top or bottom of your website to 3.1.0 or later. 6 of these have a fixed version available. Updating resolves them.

Plugin last updated: August 6, 2026 / Tested up to WordPress: 7.0.4 / View on wordpress.org

Reported vulnerabilities

Ordered by how urgently they need attention — whether a vulnerability is actually being exploited, and how likely exploitation is, rather than CVSS severity alone.

CVE	Severity	Exploit probability next 30 days	Affected versions	Fixed in	Published
CVE-2022-2515	Medium 5.4	1.0%	Before 2.12.0	`2.12.0`	September 6, 2022
CVE-2021-24574	Medium 4.8	0.7%	Before 2.10.4	`2.10.4`	August 23, 2021
CVE-2024-12769	Low 3.5	0.3%	Before 3.0.4	`3.0.4`	March 25, 2025
CVE-2022-0446	Medium 4.8	0.5%	Before 2.12.0	`2.12.0`	August 22, 2022
CVE-2025-12033	Medium 4.4	0.2%	3.0.10 and earlier	`3.1.0`	October 21, 2025
CVE-2024-13898	Medium 4.4	0.2%	3.0.4 and earlier	`3.0.5`	April 3, 2025

Sources: vulnerability records from NVD, exploitation from CISA KEV, exploit probability from EPSS. Affected versions come from CPE ranges or from the reporting CNA.