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CVE-2024-3244: EmbedPress – Embed PDF, Google Docs, Vimeo, Wistia, Embed YouTube Videos, Audios, Maps & Embed Any Documents in Gutenberg & Elementor <= 3.9.14 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-04-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The EmbedPress – Embed PDF, Google Docs, Vimeo, Wistia, Embed YouTube Videos, Audios, Maps & Embed Any Documents in Gutenberg & Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'embedpress_calendar' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 3.9.14 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• wpdevteam EmbedPress – PDF Embedder, Embed YouTube Videos, 3D FlipBook, Social feeds, Docs & more: through 3.9.14

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/embedpress/tags/3.9.13/EmbedPress/ThirdParty/Googlecalendar/Embedpress_Google_Helper.php#L657
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3064544/embedpress/tags/3.9.15/EmbedPress/ThirdParty/Googlecalendar/Embedpress_Google_Helper.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/778d8443-fc0f-4e97-8460-e5ceee8b62a1?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/embedpress/tags/3.9.13/EmbedPress/ThirdParty/Googlecalendar/Embedpress_Google_Helper.php#L657
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3064544/embedpress/tags/3.9.15/EmbedPress/ThirdParty/Googlecalendar/Embedpress_Google_Helper.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/778d8443-fc0f-4e97-8460-e5ceee8b62a1?source=cve

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