Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Jan 11, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2023-4962

Description

The Video PopUp plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'video_popup' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.1.3 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

Wp Plugins/Video Popup
cpe:2.3:a:wp-plugins:video_popup:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Range: <=1.1.3
WordPress/Video PopUpllm-create
Range: <=1.1.3

Patches

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3004434/video-popupnvdPatch
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/670ea03e-2f76-48a4-9f40-bc4cfd987a89nvdThird Party Advisory
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/video-popup/trunk/features/shortcode.phpnvdBroken Link

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