Vulnerability · Published Oct 28, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence

CVE-2026-97019AMP for WP <= 1.1.17 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'headline-*' Shortcode Attribute

High 7.2

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A high-severity cross-site scripting in AMP for WP – Accelerated Mobile Pages from mohammed_kaludi. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 15% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.2High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 85.3% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
mohammed_kaludi	AMP for WP – Accelerated Mobile Pages	0 – through 1.1.17

Weakness: CWE-79 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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Affected products (as reported)

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