Playlist for Youtube <= 1.32 - Editor+ Stored XSS

2024-05-0800:00:00

Erdemstar

youtube

xss

playlist

editor

may 22 2024

update

5.6 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

9.0%

JSON

Description The plugin does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

1. Go to https://example.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=playlists_yt_free
2. For the Playlist Name and/or Video size add the payload `"><script>alert(1)</script>`
3. Click "Add" and see the XSS