vulnerability
WordPress Plugin: wp-youtube-lyte: CVE-2021-24419: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N) | May 3, 2021 | May 15, 2025 | Apr 30, 2026 |
Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
May 3, 2021
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026
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.
Solution
wp-youtube-lyte-plugin-cve-2021-24419
References
Rapid7 Labs
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