CVE-2023-6986: Wpdeveloper Embedpress

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The EmbedPress – Embed PDF, YouTube, Google Docs, Vimeo, Wistia Videos, Audios, Maps & Any Documents in Gutenberg & Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's embed_oembed_html shortcode in all versions up to 3.9.5 (exclusive) due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• Wpdeveloper Embedpress: before 3.9.6 (fixed in 3.9.6)

Published 2024-01-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.