What is CVE-2024-9346?

CVE-2024-9346 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Michaelzangl Embed Videos And Respect Privacy, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2024-10-11.

How severe is CVE-2024-9346?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-9346 known to be exploited?

2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Michaelzangl Embed Videos And Respect Privacy

CVE-2024-9346

The Embed videos and respect privacy plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'v' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.004 (28.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Michaelzangl Embed Videos And Respect Privacy — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-9346?: CVE-2024-9346 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Michaelzangl Embed Videos And Respect Privacy, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2024-10-11.
How severe is CVE-2024-9346?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-9346 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.