CVE-2021-24414: Video Player For YouTube Project Video Player For YouTube

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Video Player for YouTube WordPress plugin before 1.4 does not sanitise or validate the parameters from its shortcode, allowing users with a role as low as contributor to set Cross-Site Scripting payload in them which will be triggered in the page/s with the embed malicious shortcode

Affected products

Published 2021-10-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.