Vulnerabilities and security researches forwp-youtube-video-optimizer wp-youtube-video-optimizer

Jun 02, 2025

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-4217
Home page URL: Security reports for WP YouTube Video Optimizer
Application: WP YouTube Video Optimizer
Date: May 21, 2025
Research Description: The WP YouTube Video Optimizer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'ib_youtube' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable