CVE-2023-6986
The EmbedPress – Embed PDF, YouTube, Google Docs, Vimeo, Wistia Videos, Audios, Maps & Any Documents in Gutenberg & Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's embed_oembed_html shortcode in all versions up to 3.9.5 (exclusive) 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.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 6.4 Medium
- Status
- Modified - security@wordfence.com
- Published
- 2024-01-03
- Last modified
- 2026-04-08
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Affected products
- Embedpress (Wpdeveloper)
- 3d Flipbook (Wpdevteam)
- Docs More (Wpdevteam)
- Embed Youtube Videos (Wpdevteam)
- Embedpress Pdf Embedder (Wpdevteam)
- Social Feeds (Wpdevteam)
References
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/embedpress/trunk/EmbedPress/Shortcode.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3014595%40embedpress&new=3014595%40emb…
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ceae0115-268c-401b-876b-3477d10c10e6?source=cve
