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CVE-2024-2304: Animated Headline <= 4.0 - Authenticated(Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-03-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Animated Headline plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'animated-headline' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 4.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• anshuln90 Animated Headline: through 4.0

References

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/animated-headline/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6f589b5d-9cdb-4521-bc60-c8f19d0ef982?source=cve
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/animated-headline/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6f589b5d-9cdb-4521-bc60-c8f19d0ef982?source=cve

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