CVE-2021-24414

PoC —

CVSS 3.1

5.4 medium

EPSS

<1%p48

Published

Oct 25, 2021 (Oct 25, 2021)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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

Vendors: video player for youtube project
Products: video player for youtube
Ecosystems: WordPress
Weakness: CWE-79
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.6%)

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