Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Jan 7, 2026· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2025-14144

Description

The Mstoic Shortcodes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'start' parameter of the ms_youtube_embeds shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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.

Affected products

WordPress/Mstoic Shortcodesinferred
Range: <=2.0
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/mstoic-shortcodes
Mstoic/Shortcodesllm-create
Range: <=2.0

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mstoic-shortcodes/tags/2.0/functions/shortcodes/youtube_embeds.phpnvd
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mstoic-shortcodes/trunk/functions/shortcodes/youtube_embeds.phpnvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6e83c039-9b15-4e0c-8b07-3b906938c138nvd

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