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CVE-2025-6061:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The kk Youtube Video plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2025-6061) discovered and disclosed on June 13, 2025. The vulnerability affects all versions of the plugin up to and including version 0.2, specifically impacting the plugin's 'kkytv' shortcode functionality (NVD, Wiz).
Technical details
The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the plugin's 'kkytv' shortcode. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 score of 6.4 (Medium) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N (NVD).
Impact
When exploited, this vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever any user accesses the compromised page (NVD).
Mitigation and workarounds
Users should update to a version newer than 0.2 once available, or consider removing the plugin until a patch is released (Wiz).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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