CVE-2026-8872
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
27/05/2026
Last modified:
27/05/2026
Description
The Animate Your Content plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'animation-set' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.0.0. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes in the shortcode_args_to_html_attrs() function, which concatenates shortcode attribute values directly into double-quoted HTML attributes without calling esc_attr(). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
6.40
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animate-your-content/trunk/plugin.php#L116
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animate-your-content/trunk/plugin.php#L135
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animate-your-content/trunk/plugin.php#L88
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5d7fd79f-8113-4143-b630-46531e574fc9?source=cve