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Vulnerability record/PUBLISHED/Published Oct 28, 2026 02:29:58 UTC

CVE-2026-97019

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.

Base score7.2/ 10
SeverityHighCVSS 3.1

Exploitability / impact

CVSS metric breakdown

Vector-derived attributes
Base severityHigh
Attack vectorNetworkAV
Attack complexityLowAC
Privileges requiredNonePR
User interactionNoneUI
ScopeChangedS
Confidentiality impactLowC
Integrity impactLowI
Availability impactNoneA
CVSS vector stringCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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Record context

CVE Numbering AuthorityWordfence
Last updatedOct 28, 2026 02:29:58 UTC
PublishedOct 28, 2026 02:29:58 UTC
ReservedSep 23, 2026 20:55:19 UTC

Credits

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