WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

WP YouTube Live < 1.8.3 - Admin+ Stored Cross Site Scripting

Description

The plugin does not validate, sanitise and escape various of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed

Proof of Concept

Put the following payload in the "Youtube API Key" or "YouTube Channel ID" settings and save: "><img src onerror=alert(/XSS/)>

The Custom HTML settings is also affected: </textarea><img src onerror=alert(/XSS/)>

Settings which are expected to be number also affected as they are only validated client side

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 1.8.3

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Vinay Varma Mudunuri, Krishna Harsha Kondaveeti
Submitter
Vinay Varma Mudunuri
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2022-04-25 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2022-04-25 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-02-05 (about 1 years ago)

Other