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CVE-2025-8072: Target Video Easy Publish <= 3.8.8 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via placeholder_img Parameter

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-01-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Target Video Easy Publish plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘placeholder_img’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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

• nebojsadabic Target Video Easy Publish: through 3.8.8

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/brid-video-easy-publish/tags/3.8.6/lib/BridShortcode.php#L204
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3437514/brid-video-easy-publish/trunk/lib/BridShortcode.php
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/brid-video-easy-publish/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/26e16dd3-66bc-4174-acc1-ee22713ae979?source=cve

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