Vulnerability CVE-2023-4841
Published: 2023-09-14

Description:
The Feeds for YouTube for WordPress 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.

Type:

CWE-79

 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'))

 References:
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/376e2638-a873-4142-ad7d-067ae3333709?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2966017/feeds-for-youtube#file564
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/feeds-for-youtube/tags/2.1/templates/feed.php#L33
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