Medium severity · published May 27, 2026
CVE-2026-8872
Animate Your Content <= 1.0.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode Attributes
6.4
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 9% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AY
Animate Your Content · fides-it
through 1.0.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-8872
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-8872
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animate-your-content/trunk/plugin.php#L116
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animate-your-content/trunk/plugin.php#L135
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animate-your-content/trunk/plugin.php#L88
www.wordfence.com
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5d7fd79f-8113-4143-b630-46531e574fc9?source=cve
