CVE-2023-6986 (GCVE-0-2023-6986)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-01-03 06:41
Modified
2025-04-17 18:26
Severity ?
6.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
Summary
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.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/embedpress/trunk/EmbedPress/Shortcode.phpProduct
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3014595%40embedpress&new=3014595%40embedpress&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file11Patch
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ceae0115-268c-401b-876b-3477d10c10e6?source=cvePatch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/embedpress/trunk/EmbedPress/Shortcode.phpProduct
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3014595%40embedpress&new=3014595%40embedpress&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file11Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ceae0115-268c-401b-876b-3477d10c10e6?source=cvePatch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
wpdevteam EmbedPress – Embed PDF, YouTube, Google Docs, Vimeo, Wistia Videos, Audios, Maps & Any Documents in Gutenberg & Elementor Version: *   ≤
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