Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Apr 16, 2026· Updated Apr 22, 2026
CVE-2026-3299
CVE-2026-3299
Description
The WP YouTube Lyte plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'lyte' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.29 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.
Affected products
1- Range: <=1.7.29
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
2News mentions
1- Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (April 13, 2026 to April 19, 2026)Wordfence Blog · Apr 23, 2026