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CVE-2025-23946: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was identified in the Enhanced YouTube Shortcode WordPress plugin, tracked as CVE-2025-23946. The vulnerability affects versions through 2.0.1 and allows for Stored XSS attacks. The issue was discovered by researcher SOPROBRO and publicly disclosed on January 16, 2025 (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) and has received a CVSS v3.1 score of 6.5 (Medium). The attack vector is network-based, with low attack complexity, requiring low privileges and user interaction. The scope is changed with low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (NVD).

Impact

This vulnerability could allow malicious actors to inject malicious scripts, including redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into the website. These injected scripts would be executed when visitors access the affected site (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

Currently, no official fix is available for this vulnerability. The security issue has been marked as having a low priority for virtual patching (Patchstack).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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