Responsive Video Embedder <= 0.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode Attributes
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.
Summary
The Responsive Video Embedder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'rem_video' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 0.1. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes (notably 'id' and 'list') in the video_shortcode() function, which are concatenated directly into an HTML iframe's src attribute without 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.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-8877
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-6rcp-q8qr-wh4c
References
Other 3
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/00f5cf90-cc63-4e51-b1be-1152abefc59d?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/responsive-video-embedder/trunk/responsive-video-embedder.php#L167
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/responsive-video-embedder/trunk/responsive-video-embedder.php#L152
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Sources
- CVE-2026-8877 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-8877 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-6rcp-q8qr-wh4c · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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