CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-24419
4.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-07-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/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 WP YouTube Lyte WordPress plugin before 1.7.16 did not sanitise or escape its lyte_yt_api_key and lyte_notification settings before outputting them back in the page, allowing high privilege users to set XSS payload on them and leading to stored Cross-Site Scripting issues.
Affected configurations
• wp youtube lyte project wp youtube lyte (< 1.7.16)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://m0ze.ru/vulnerability/%5B2021-05-03%5D-%5BWordPress%5D-%5BCWE-79%5D-WP-YouTube-Lyte-WordPress-Plugin-v1.7.15.txt m0ze.ru
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/0eeff1ee-d11e-4d52-a032-5f5bd8a6a2d7 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://m0ze.ru/vulnerability/%5B2021-05-03%5D-%5BWordPress%5D-%5BCWE-79%5D-WP-YouTube-Lyte-WordPress-Plugin-v1.7.15.txt m0ze.ru
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/0eeff1ee-d11e-4d52-a032-5f5bd8a6a2d7 Exploit, Third Party Advisory