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CVE-2026-8872: Animate Your Content <= 1.0.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode Attributes

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-05-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

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 products

• fides-it Animate Your Content: through 1.0.0

References

• 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

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