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WordPress Plugin: yt-player: CVE-2021-24414: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Published

Sep 22, 2021

Added

May 15, 2025

Modified

Apr 30, 2026

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

Solution

yt-player-plugin-cve-2021-24414

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-24414
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0dbed7a2-730d-42f2-9d57-3f07900d33e3?source=api-prod
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2021-11326
CVE-2021-24414
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2021-24414
CWE-79
EUVD-EUVD-2021-11326

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