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CVE-2023-0446: My YouTube Channel <= 3.0.12.1 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-01-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The My YouTube Channel plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via its settings parameters in versions up to, and including, 3.0.12.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• urkekg My YouTube Channel: through 3.0.12.1

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2844200%40youtube-channel&new=2844200%40youtube-channel&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d979f899-8cdc-4230-b1b5-865c025dc86a?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2844200%40youtube-channel&new=2844200%40youtube-channel&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d979f899-8cdc-4230-b1b5-865c025dc86a

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