WP YouTube Lyte, CVE-2026-3299

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2026-3299
Home page URL: Security reports for WP YouTube Lyte
Application: WP YouTube Lyte
Published on: Apr 16, 2026
Research Description: The WP YouTube Lyte plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'lyte' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.29 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: max 1.7.30.
Status: vulnerable