CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-88793

HighCVSS 8.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.28%

20th percentile - higher than 20% of all known CVEs

Summary

The YouTube Embed WordPress plugin from 10.0 to 10.3 does not perform any authorisation check on one of its AJAX actions, relying only on a nonce it prints on every front-end page, and does not escape the stored data before rendering it, allowing unauthenticated attackers to store arbitrary web scripts which will execute in the session of any user viewing the affected content, including an administrator.

Risk Assessment

An unauthenticated attacker can perform a stored XSS attack, hijacking user sessions including the administrator's, potentially leading to full takeover of the WordPress site.

Recommendation

Update the YouTube Embed plugin to a version newer than 10.3 or disable it; additionally, review the plugin's stored data for injected scripts.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

The YouTube Embed WordPress plugin from 10.0 to 10.3 does not perform any authorisation check on one of its AJAX actions, relying only on a nonce it prints on every front-end page, and does not escape the stored data before rendering it, allowing unauthenticated attackers to store arbitrary web scripts which will execute in the session of any user viewing the affected content, including an administrator.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS