CVE-2026-85000EmbedPress < 4.6.8 - Unauthenticated YouTube API Quota Consumption and Database Bloating
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The EmbedPress WordPress plugin before 4.6.8 does not perform any capability or nonce check on an unauthenticated request that triggers a server-side, credential-bearing request to a third-party API and stores attacker-controlled cache entries, allowing unauthenticated attackers to consume the site owner's third-party API quota and write unbounded records into the site's database.
- CVSS
- 5.3 MEDIUM (v3.1, CISA ADP)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-284
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- WPScan
- NVD analysis
- Deferred
- Record last updated
- Oct 14, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 14, 2026
Affected products
Unknown EmbedPress unknown:embedpress (from the name) | before 4.6.8 | CNA record |
References
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/3c7f7d07-2c46-4839-b97f-27fe41e6292d/exploit, vdb-entry, technical-description
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