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1 vulnerability found for Widget Responsive for Youtube by stefanoai

CVE-2023-5063 (GCVE-0-2023-5063)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-09-20 02:31
Modified
2026-04-08 17:00
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Summary
The Widget Responsive for Youtube plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'youtube' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.6.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Impacted products
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