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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.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":6.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-09","score":0.00193,"percentile":0.09033,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-79"],"published":"2026-05-27T05:31:26Z","modified":"2026-06-17T11:04:33Z","products":[{"vendor":"fides-it","product":"animate your content"}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5d7fd79f-8113-4143-b630-46531e574fc9?source=cve"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animate-your-content/trunk/plugin.php#L135"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animate-your-content/trunk/plugin.php#L116"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animate-your-content/trunk/plugin.php#L88"},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-8872"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9vgm-7xvx-g4wx"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-8872","title":"Animate Your Content \u003c= 1.0.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode Attributes","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.","status":"published","published":"2026-05-27T05:31:26.161Z","modified":"2026-05-27T10:35:54.553Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-79"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T13:48:13.398044Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2026-32074","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. 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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.","status":"published","published":"2026-05-27T05:31:26Z","modified":"2026-05-27T10:35:54Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T18:21:06.054612Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-9vgm-7xvx-g4wx","title":"The Animate Your Content plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via...","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. 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