Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Sep 14, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2023-4841

Description

The Feeds for YouTube plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'youtube-feed' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.1 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.

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Affected products

Smashballoon/Feeds For Youtube
cpe:2.3:a:smashballoon:feeds_for_youtube:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Range: <=2.1
WordPress/Feeds For Youtubellm-fuzzy
Range: <=2.1
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/feeds-for-youtube

Patches

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2966017/feeds-for-youtubenvdPatch
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/376e2638-a873-4142-ad7d-067ae3333709nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/feeds-for-youtube/tags/2.1/templates/feed.phpnvdIssue Tracking

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