CVE-2026-97019

AMP for WP <= 1.1.17 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'headline-*' Shortcode Attribute

HIGH
7.2
CVSS Score
Published: October 28, 2026 at 02:29 AM UTC
Updated: October 29, 2026 at 02:16 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorAMP for WP

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Severity
HIGH7.2
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

The AMP for WP – Accelerated Mobile Pages plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'headline-*' Shortcode Attribute in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.17 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. A Subscriber-level user can store a malicious shortcode in their biographical info field; because WordPress core's wp_filter_kses() only strips HTML tags and not shortcode syntax, and because AMP content sanitizers run before do_shortcode() processes the archive description, the synthesized markup is never post-sanitized.

Affected

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

90%
All versions

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

7.2HIGHWordfence
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-79

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