High severity · published Oct 28, 2026
CVE-2026-97019
AMP for WP <= 1.1.17 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'headline-*' Shortcode Attribute
New
7.2
CVSS
–
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The AMP for WP – Accelerated Mobile Pages plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'headline-*' Shortcode Attribute in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.17 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. A Subscriber-level user can store a malicious shortcode in their biographical info field; because WordPress core's wp_filter_kses() only strips HTML tags and not shortcode syntax, and because AMP content sanitizers run before do_shortcode() processes the archive description, the synthesized markup is never post-sanitized.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AF
AMP for WP – Accelerated Mobile Pages · mohammed_kaludi
through 1.1.17 · source: vendor
Affected product
AF
AMP for WP – Accelerated Mobile Pages
mohammed_kaludi
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-97019
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97019
www.wordfence.com
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/be16349f-31aa-41b8-a4fa-95db3141ba9b?source=cve
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/accelerated-mobile-pages/tags/1.1.17/includes/thirdparty-compatibility.php#L1594
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/accelerated-mobile-pages/tags/1.1.17/includes/thirdparty-compatibility.php#L1565
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/accelerated-mobile-pages/tags/1.1.17/components/loop/loop.php#L69
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3722863%40accelerated-mobile-pages&new=3722863%40accelerated-mobile-pages
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