PT-2026-1610 · WordPress · Cool Yt Player

Published 2026-01-07 · Updated 2026-01-07 · CVE-2025-13849

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.4

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions The Cool YT Player plugin for WordPress versions prior to 1.1

Description The Cool YT Player plugin for WordPress is susceptible to Stored Cross-Site Scripting through the videoid parameter. Insufficient input sanitization and output escaping allow authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These scripts will execute when a user accesses the injected page.

Recommendations Update The Cool YT Player plugin to version 1.1 or later.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-13849

Affected Products

Cool Yt Player

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-13849 · Security Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cool-yt-player/trunk/includes/youtube_video_wrapper.php#L58 · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/2008838592500486514 · Twitter Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/590bdf82-8006-4729-96e5-42b0d1552d19?source=cve · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cool-yt-player/tags/1.0/includes/youtube_video_wrapper.php#L58 · Note