The Animated Text Block plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in versions up to, and including, 1.2.6 via…
CVE-2026-116613
The Animated Text Block plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in versions up to, and including, 1.2.6 via the 'animated-text' shortcode. This is due to the atbshortcodehandler() function fetching an arbitrary post by attacker-supplied ID and, in the 'publish' branch, calling displayContent() with no capability check and no validation that the post's posttype is the plugin's own CPT or is otherwise viewable (isposttypeviewable()). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to read the rendered block content of any published post, including posts of non-public custom post types (public=false, showinrest=false) that WordPress would otherwise hide from direct URLs and the REST API.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 7.5 (v3.1)
- Severity
- High
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 28 October 2026
- Last updated
- 29 October 2026
- Weakness
- CWE-862
- Assigner
- security@wordfence.com
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
At the source
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animated-text-block/tags/1.2.6/plugin.php#L132
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animated-text-block/tags/1.2.6/plugin.php#L142
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animated-text-block/tags/1.2.6/plugin.php#L163
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3767751%40animated-text-block&new=3767751%40animated-text-block
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7163be31-8f55-45ba-8364-e84a3e636d5b?source=cve
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