CVE-2021-24419

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Description

The WP YouTube Lyte WordPress plugin before 1.7.16 did not sanitise or escape its lyte_yt_api_key and lyte_notification settings before outputting them back in the page, allowing high privilege users to set XSS payload on them and leading to stored Cross-Site Scripting issues.

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/0eeff1ee-d11e-4d52-a032-5f5bd8a6a2d7

https://m0ze.ru/vulnerability/%5B2021-05-03%5D-%5BWordPress%5D-%5BCWE-79%5D-WP-YouTube-Lyte-WordPress-Plugin-v1.7.15.txt

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-07-12

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00206