5.4
CVSSv3

CVE-2021-24471

Published: 16/08/2021 Updated: 23/08/2021
CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.4 | Impact Score: 2.7 | Exploitability Score: 2.3
VMScore: 187
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

The YouTube Embed WordPress plugin prior to 5.2.2 does not validate, escape or sanitise some of its shortcode attributes, leading to Stored XSS issues by 1. using w, h, controls, cc_lang, color, language, start, stop, or style parameter of youtube shortcode, 2. by using style, class, rel, target, width, height, or alt parameter of youtube_thumb shortcode, or 3. by embedding a video whose title or description contains XSS payload (if API key is configured).

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