Vulnerability Details : CVE-2023-4841
Potential exploit
The Feeds for YouTube for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'youtube-feed' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.1 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.
Vulnerability category: Cross site scripting (XSS)
Products affected by CVE-2023-4841
- cpe:2.3:a:smashballoon:feeds_for_youtube:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2023-4841
0.09%
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days
EPSS Score History
~ 28 %
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less
CVSS scores for CVE-2023-4841
Base Score | Base Severity | CVSS Vector | Exploitability Score | Impact Score | Score Source | First Seen |
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5.4
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MEDIUM | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
2.3
|
2.7
|
NIST | |
6.4
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MEDIUM | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
3.1
|
2.7
|
Wordfence |
CWE ids for CVE-2023-4841
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The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.Assigned by: security@wordfence.com (Primary)
References for CVE-2023-4841
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https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/feeds-for-youtube/tags/2.1/templates/feed.php#L33
feed.php in feeds-for-youtube/tags/2.1/templates – WordPress Plugin RepositoryIssue Tracking
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https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2966017/feeds-for-youtube#file564
Changeset 2966017 for feeds-for-youtube – WordPress Plugin RepositoryPatch
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https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/376e2638-a873-4142-ad7d-067ae3333709?source=cve
Feeds for YouTube <= 2.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via ShortcodeExploit;Third Party Advisory
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