Description
The Video Player for YouTube WordPress plugin before 2.1.4 does not perform a capability check on its player-preset AJAX handler, allowing users with the Contributor role and above to read the site-wide player-preset configuration, and in versions before 2.1.1 to modify and delete it as well.
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Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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3.8
LOW
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 4 · as of 2 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-284
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