Vulnerabilites related to Unknown - My YouTube Channel
cve-2022-4756
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-02-06 19:59
Modified
2025-03-25 20:44
Summary
The My YouTube Channel WordPress plugin before 3.23.0 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks which could be used against high privilege users such as admins.
References
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/d67b0f7a-fdb1-4305-9976-c5f77b0e3b61exploit, vdb-entry, technical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown My YouTube Channel Version: 0   < 3.23.0
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