CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-24414

5.4 MEDIUM Published 2021-10-25 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-10-25
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.5 LOW — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-79

Description

The Video Player for YouTube WordPress plugin before 1.4 does not sanitise or validate the parameters from its shortcode, allowing users with a role as low as contributor to set Cross-Site Scripting payload in them which will be triggered in the page/s with the embed malicious shortcode

Affected configurations

• video player for youtube project video player for youtube (< 1.4)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness

References