# CVE-2025-24721: WordPress Easy YouTube Gallery plugin <= 1.0.4 - Stored Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

> Stored XSS in Easy YouTube Gallery allows attackers to inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by other users.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 24 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 28 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-fhgg-6h6w-vm63

## What is CVE-2025-24721?

CVE-2025-24721 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Aleksandar Urošević Easy YouTube Gallery, published on 24 Jan 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Aleksandar Urošević Easy YouTube Gallery easy-youtube-gallery allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Easy YouTube Gallery: from n/a through <= 1.0.4.

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-24721?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-24721?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-24721 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-24721 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-24721 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-24721 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-24721 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Aleksandar Urošević Easy YouTube Gallery, published on 24 Jan 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-24721 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Aleksandar Urošević Easy YouTube Gallery. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-24721/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-24721/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-24721
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24721
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-24721

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-24721/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.