WP YouTube Video Optimizer, CVE-2025-4217
- CVE, Research URL
- Home page URL
- Application
- Published on
- 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
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Min -, max 1.2.
- Status
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vulnerable