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Vulnerability record · CVE-2024-8987 · published 10 October 2024

CVE-2024-8987: Kainelabs youzify cross-site scripting vulnerability

Kainelabs · Youzify

The Youzify – BuddyPress Community, User Profile, Social Network & Membership Plugin for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's youzify_media shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.

5.4 CVSS 3.1 Medium EPSS 0.33% · top 76.6% CWE-79 · Cross-site scripting
5.4CVSS 3.1 base score
0.33%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
5References
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

The Youzify – BuddyPress Community, User Profile, Social Network & Membership Plugin for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's youzify_media shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/youzify/tags/1.3.0/includes/public/core/functions/general/youzify-profile-fun Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3166404%40youzify%2Ftrunk&old=3125439%4
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3166404%40youzify&new=3166404%40youzify
https://wordpress.org/plugins/youzify/#developers ProductRelease Notes
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/19c463d1-41fa-4386-b755-a14d1e68c5bd?source=cve Third Party Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2024-8987), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.