Vulnerabilities and security researches forsimple-youtube-shortcode simple-youtube-shortcode

Nov 11, 2025

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-11811
Home page URL: Security reports for Simple Youtube Shortcode
Application: Simple Youtube Shortcode
Date: Oct 22, 2025
Research Description: The Simple Youtube Shortcode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'embed_youtube' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.3. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on the 'id' attribute. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected versions: max 1.1.3.
Status: vulnerable