Video Player for YouTube <= 1.3 — Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2021-24414Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: <1.4Update to 1.4 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium5.4
- CVSS
- 5.4CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:RUser interaction- Required
S:CScope- Changed
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
Video Player for YouTube – Embed Videos Your Visitors Will Love to Watch yt-player
- Affected< 1.4
- Patched in1.4
Update to 1.4 or newer.
You are affected if you run < 1.4. Version 1.4 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Video Player for YouTube – Embed Videos Your Visitors Will Love to Watch.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 1.4, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Video Player for YouTube – Embed Videos Your Visitors Will Love to Watch to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Michal Lipinski.
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
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 5.4
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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