Known vulnerabilities in Embeds for YouTube

🎥 An incredibly fast, simple, yet powerful, method of embedding YouTube videos into your WordPress site.

4Reported vulnerabilities

6.4Highest CVSS score

5.4Latest version

9,000+Active installs

What to do now

Update Embeds for YouTube to 5.4 or later. 3 of these have a fixed version available. Updating resolves them.

Plugin last updated: April 18, 2025 / Tested up to WordPress: 6.8.8 / View on wordpress.org

Reported vulnerabilities

Ordered by how urgently they need attention — whether a vulnerability is actually being exploited, and how likely exploitation is, rather than CVSS severity alone.

CVE	Severity	Exploit probability next 30 days	Affected versions	Fixed in	Published
CVE-2021-24471	Medium 5.4	0.6%	Before 5.2.2	`5.2.2`	August 16, 2021
CVE-2025-68599	Medium 6.4	0.2%	5.4 and earlier	—	December 22, 2025
CVE-2025-31008	Medium 4.4	0.4%	5.3.1 and earlier	`5.4`	April 9, 2025
CVE-2015-6535	Low 3.5	1.3%	3.3.2 and earlier	`3.3.3`	August 31, 2015

Sources: vulnerability records from NVD, exploitation from CISA KEV, exploit probability from EPSS. Affected versions come from CPE ranges or from the reporting CNA.