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YT Player < 1.4 - Contributor+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The plugin 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

Proof of Concept

Log in as contributor and add the following shortcode in a post [ytplayer id='" onmouseover="alert(/XSS/)"']

Then view the post and move the mouse over the embed YT player to trigger the XSS 

Affects Plugins

yt-player
Fixed in version 1.4

References

CVE
CVE-2021-24414

Classification

Type

XSS

OWASP top 10
A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE
CWE-79

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Michał Lipiński

Submitter website
https://beastiecode.com
Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
e20b805d-eb11-4702-9803-77de276000ac

Timeline

Publicly Published

2021-09-22 (about 9 months ago)

Added

2021-09-22 (about 9 months ago)

Last Updated

2021-09-22 (about 9 months ago)

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