CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2026-1899 — Any Post Slider security vulnerability
The Any Post Slider plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's aps_slider shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on the 'post_type' attribute. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 6.4 (3.1)
- Published
- 2026-03-21
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- php/wordpress
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Affected products
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Matched remediation archetype
Cross-site scripting and unsafe browser output
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Check exposure
- Trace reflected, stored, and DOM-derived untrusted values into HTML, attributes, URLs, styles, scripts, and client-side template sinks.
- Identify affected origins, authenticated user roles, sensitive browser capabilities, and where content is shared across tenants.
- Review framework escaping, rich-text sanitization, legacy templates, and client-side rendering paths.
Remediate safely
- Use context-aware framework output encoding and safe DOM APIs; keep untrusted data out of executable contexts.
- Sanitize intentionally supported markup with a maintained allowlist policy and validate URLs and attributes separately.
- Update affected rendering components and add tests for every output context using inert sentinel markup.
Authoritative sources
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