AMP for WP <= 1.1.17 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'headline-*' Shortcode Attribute
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- published
- Whether CISA lists it in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: proof that attackers are using it.What do these mean? →
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
- Exploitation: none
- Automatable: no
- Technical impact: partial
Summary
The AMP for WP – Accelerated Mobile Pages plugin for WordPress is affected, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to inject malicious scripts that run in the browsers of visitors who open the affected pages. This could let attackers steal session data or perform actions as the victim, including administrators.
Summarized by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5. Verify details against the original sources.
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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.
Timeline
- CVE published
- First seen by cve.now
- CISA SSVC assessment
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
- Record last updated
Affected versions
- mohammed_kaludi AMP for WP – Accelerated Mobile Pages
through 1.1.17
References 5
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- browser/accelerated-mobile-pages/tags/1.1.17/includes/thirdparty-compatibility.php#L1594
- browser/accelerated-mobile-pages/tags/1.1.17/includes/thirdparty-compatibility.php#L1565
- browser/accelerated-mobile-pages/tags/1.1.17/components/loop/loop.php#L69
- changeset?reponame=&old=3722863%40accelerated-mobile-pages&new=3722863%40accelerated-mobile-pages