{"id":79641,"date":"2026-06-12T05:46:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T02:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-9125-the-ultimate-video-player-for-wordpress\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T05:46:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T02:16:42","slug":"cve-2026-9125-the-ultimate-video-player-for-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-9125-the-ultimate-video-player-for-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-9125 &#8211; The Ultimate Video Player For WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-9125<\/p>\n<p>  Published : June 12, 2026, 2:16 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 4\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :The Presto Player plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the &#8216;link_url&#8217; parameter of the [presto_player_overlay] shortcode in versions up to, and including, 4.2.0 This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the getOverlays() function, which copies the link_url shortcode attribute directly into the overlay configuration without scheme validation, allowing javascript: URIs to survive and be rendered as the href of a clickable anchor element by the presto-dynamic-overlay-ui web component. 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.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 6.4 | MEDIUM<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-9125 Published : June 12, 2026, 2:16 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 4\u00a0minutes ago Description :The Presto Player plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the &#8216;link_url&#8217; parameter of the [presto_player_overlay] shortcode in versions up to, and including, 4.2.0 This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the getOverlays() &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}