FKIE_CVE-2026-15790

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-16 06:16 - Updated: 2026-08-20 12:48
Severity
6.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
The Youtube Showcase plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 4.0.4 via the 'emd_mb_meta' shortcode. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on attachment titles referenced by the shortcode's image field: EMD_MB_Helper::image_info() returns the attachment's raw post_title, and EMD_MB_Helper::shortcode() interpolates it into title="%s" HTML attributes via sprintf() without esc_attr(). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above (upload_files capability required to create the attachment, edit_posts/publish_posts to embed the shortcode), to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/youtube-showcase/tags/4.0.4/assets/ext/emd-meta-box/inc/helpers.php#L274
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/youtube-showcase/tags/4.0.4/assets/ext/emd-meta-box/inc/helpers.php#L72
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3be5e544-1ea5-46f6-a15b-99b0e3718c91?source=cve
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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