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.

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Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

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Vendor Product Default status Versions
mohammed_kaludi AMP for WP – Accelerated Mobile Pages unaffected
Version Status Constraints
0 affected ≤ 1.1.17

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https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/accelerated-mobile-pages/tags/1.1.17/components/loop/loop.php#L69 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/accelerated-mobile-pages/tags/1.1.17/includes/thirdparty-compatibility.php#L1565 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/accelerated-mobile-pages/tags/1.1.17/includes/thirdparty-compatibility.php#L1594 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3722863%40accelerated-mobile-pages&new=3722863%40accelerated-mobile-pages cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/be16349f-31aa-41b8-a4fa-95db3141ba9b?source=cve cve-icon cve-icon
History

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 02:45:00 +0000

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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.
Title AMP for WP <= 1.1.17 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'headline-*' Shortcode Attribute
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-28T02:29:58.709Z

Reserved: 2026-09-23T20:55:19.232Z

Link: CVE-2026-97019

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-10-28T03:17:16.317

Modified: 2026-10-28T03:17:16.317

Link: CVE-2026-97019

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Updated: 2026-10-28T04:15:14Z

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