CVE-2026-8872

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.

Predictions

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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References

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5d7fd79f-8113-4143-b630-46531e574fc9?source=cve
• 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#L116
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animate-your-content/trunk/plugin.php#L88

CWEs

CWE-79

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