WP YouTube Lyte <= 1.7.15 - Authenticated (Admin+) Cross-Site Scripting

3.8
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2021-24419
CVSS 3.8 (Low)
Publicly Published May 3, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Vladislav Pokrovsky (ΞX.MI) - Independent AppSec Researcher

Description

The WP YouTube Lyte WordPress plugin before 1.7.16 did not sanitise or escape its lyte_yt_api_key and lyte_notification settings before outputting them back in the page, allowing high privilege users to set XSS payload on them and leading to stored Cross-Site Scripting issues.

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1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-youtube-lyte (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.7.16, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • < 1.7.16
Patched Version
  • 1.7.16

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