Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in Responsive video embed plugin
CVE-2024-5475
Key Information:
- Vendor
Wordpress
- Status
- Vendor
- CVE Published:
- 20 June 2024
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What is CVE-2024-5475?
The Responsive video embed WordPress plugin before 0.5.1 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

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Affected Version(s)
Responsive video embed 0 < 0.5.1
Exploit Proof of Concept (PoC)
PoC code is written by security researchers to demonstrate the vulnerability can be exploited. PoC code is also a key component for weaponization which could lead to ransomware.
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