Vulnerability CVE-2023-6986

Vulnerability CVE-2023-6986

Published: 2024-01-03

Description:

The EmbedPress ?? Embed PDF, YouTube, Google Docs, Vimeo, Wistia Videos, Audios, Maps & Any Documents in Gutenberg & Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's embed_oembed_html shortcode in all versions up to 3.9.5 (exclusive) 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.

References:

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ceae0115-268c-401b-876b-3477d10c10e6?source=cve

https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/embedpress/trunk/EmbedPress/Shortcode.php

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3014595%40embedpress&new=3014595%40embedpress&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file11