CVE-2024-3937: playlist for youtube vulnerability

The Playlist for Youtube WordPress plugin through 1.32 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)
CVE-2024-3937CVSS 4.8CMS

CVE-2024-3937: playlist for youtube vulnerability

The Playlist for Youtube WordPress plugin through 1.32 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

CVSS
4.8 MEDIUM
EPSS
25.62%
Known exploited
not in KEV
Product
playlist for youtube

What is known

The Playlist for Youtube WordPress plugin through 1.32 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

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