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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.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":6.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-09","score":0.00424,"percentile":0.36943,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-79"],"published":"2024-07-11T06:43:12Z","modified":"2026-06-17T08:17:38Z","products":[{"vendor":"smashballoon","product":"feeds_for_youtube"},{"vendor":"smub","product":"feeds for youtube (youtube video, channel, and gallery plugin)"}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/228fab65-e5c2-41d1-ad41-fac4862894f2?source=cve","tags":["x_transferred","Third Party Advisory"]},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/feeds-for-youtube/trunk/js/sb-youtube.js","tags":["x_transferred","Product"]},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3107577/","tags":["x_transferred","Patch"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6256"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3107577"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9562-qcmw-xjmw"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2024-6256","title":"Feeds for YouTube (YouTube video, channel, and gallery plugin) \u003c= 2.2.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting","description":"The Feeds for YouTube (YouTube video, channel, and gallery plugin) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'youtube-feed' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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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.","status":"published","published":"2024-07-11T09:30:57Z","modified":"2024-07-12T18:32:53Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-79"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:57:41.954948Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2024-6256","description":"The Feeds for YouTube (YouTube video, channel, and gallery plugin) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'youtube-feed' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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