The Animated Headline plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'animated-headline' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 4.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2024-27259 The Animated Headline plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'animated-headline' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 4.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
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Solution

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Workaround

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History

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Title Animated Headline <= 4.0 - Authenticated(Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode
Weaknesses CWE-79

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-08T16:59:53.870Z

Reserved: 2024-03-07T20:16:22.055Z

Link: CVE-2024-2304

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T19:11:53.459Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-03-20T07:15:11.447

Modified: 2026-04-08T18:21:03.357

Link: CVE-2024-2304

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-07-12T22:31:47Z

Weaknesses