Security Advisory

CVE-2021-24471

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2021-08-16 10:48:22

Last updated 2024-08-03 19:35:19

Assigner WPScan

State PUBLISHED

Description

The YouTube Embed WordPress plugin before 5.2.2 does not validate, escape or sanitise some of its shortcode attributes, leading to Stored XSS issues by 1. using w, h, controls, cc_lang, color, language, start, stop, or style parameter of youtube shortcode, 2. by using style, class, rel, target, width, height, or alt parameter of youtube_thumb shortcode, or 3. by embedding a video whose title or description contains XSS payload (if API key is configured).

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