Vulnerability · Published May 27, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2026-8877Responsive Video Embedder <= 0.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode Attributes
Medium 6.4
In plain English
A medium-severity cross-site scripting in Responsive Video Embedder from esiteq. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 15% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
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.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| esiteq | Responsive Video Embedder | 0 – through 0.1 |
Weakness: CWE-79 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
References
- 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