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CVE-2024-5169: Video Widget <= 1.2.3 - Admin+ Stored XSS via Widget

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-06-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Video Widget WordPress plugin through 1.2.3 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)

Affected products

• Video Widget: through 1.2.3

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f0de62e3-5e85-43f3-8e3e-e816dafb1406/
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f0de62e3-5e85-43f3-8e3e-e816dafb1406/

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