CVE-2026-8872

Animate Your Content <= 1.0.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode Attributes

MEDIUM
6.4
CVSS Score
Published: May 27, 2026 at 05:31 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 11:04 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorAnimate Your Content

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Severity
MEDIUM6.4
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v ≤ 1.0.0

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

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CVSS

6.4MEDIUMWordfence
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-79

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