CVE-2023-4841
CVSS 3.1 Score 7.8 of 10 (high)
Details
Published Sep 14, 2023
Updated: Nov 7, 2023
CWE ID 269
Summary
CVE-2023-4841 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Feeds for YouTube plugin for WordPress. This issue, present in versions up to 2.1, allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level permissions or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts. The vulnerability arises due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the 'youtube-feed' shortcode. Successful exploitation of this flaw enables attackers to execute their malicious scripts whenever a user accesses an injected page.
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