CVE-2021-24414

MEDIUM 5.4CVE-2021-24414 · Published 25/10/2021 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2021-24414 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.4) vulnerability affecting video player for youtube (video player for youtube project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.62%, higher than 50.2% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 1.4 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
video player for youtube video_player_for_youtube_project	`< 1.4`	`1.4`

Description

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

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/e20b805d-eb11-4702-9803-77de276000ac · Exploit

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