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.
Published: 2023-09-14
Score: 6.4 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-54682 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.
History

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:45:00 +0000

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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. 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.
Title Feeds for YouTube <= 2.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode
Weaknesses CWE-79

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 20:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Subscriptions

Smashballoon Feeds For Youtube
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-08T16:46:21.851Z

Reserved: 2023-09-08T13:20:41.946Z

Link: CVE-2023-4841

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Updated: 2024-08-02T07:38:00.718Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-09-14T03:15:08.583

Modified: 2026-04-08T18:18:16.787

Link: CVE-2023-4841

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Weaknesses