CVE-2025-13849

MEDIUM 6.4

Cool YT Player <= 1.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode Attributes

CVSS Score

6.4

EPSS Score

0.0%

EPSS Percentile

0th

The Cool YT Player plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'videoid' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.0 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.

CWE	CWE-79
Vendor	matiasanca
Product	cool yt player
Published	Jan 7, 2026
Last Updated	Apr 8, 2026

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CVSS v3 Breakdown

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

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Scope

Confidentiality

Integrity

Availability

Affected Versions

matiasanca / Cool YT Player

0 ≤ 1.0

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗

wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/590bdf82-8006-4729-96e5-42b0d1552d19?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cool-yt-player/trunk/includes/youtube_video_wrapper.php#L58 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cool-yt-player/tags/1.0/includes/youtube_video_wrapper.php#L58

Credits

Gilang Asra Bilhadi