CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-4841
5.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-09-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
The Feeds for YouTube plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'youtube-feed' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected configurations
• smashballoon feeds for youtube (<= 2.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/feeds-for-youtube/tags/2.1/templates/feed.php#L33 Issue Tracking
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2966017/feeds-for-youtube#file564 Patch
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/376e2638-a873-4142-ad7d-067ae3333709?source=cve Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/feeds-for-youtube/tags/2.1/templates/feed.php#L33 Issue Tracking
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2966017/feeds-for-youtube#file564 Patch
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/376e2638-a873-4142-ad7d-067ae3333709?source=cve Exploit, Third Party Advisory