Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Jul 11, 2024· Updated Apr 8, 2026
CVE-2024-6256
CVE-2024-6256
Description
The Feeds for YouTube (YouTube video, channel, and gallery plugin) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'youtube-feed' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
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3cpe:2.3:a:smashballoon:feeds_for_youtube:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:smashballoon:feeds_for_youtube:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*range: <2.2.2
- (no CPE)range: <=2.2.1
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