Easy Flash Embed

Easy Flash Embed has one disclosed vulnerability in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2025; it remains unpatched as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 6.4, and the most serious one scores 6.4 out of 10.

The most common weakness is Cross-Site Scripting, behind 1 of the records (100%).

The one issue recorded for Easy Flash Embed has no published fix yet, which makes virtual patching the only reliable mitigation. The oldest unresolved one dates back to 2025.

All of these findings were reported by Muhammad Yudha - DJ. Easy Flash Embed is installed on roughly 800 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The current release is tested up to WordPress 2.9.2.

Strategic Overview

Avg CVSSMedium
6.4/ 10
Patch Coverage0%
Open

1

Fixed

0

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Most severe open issueCVSS 6.4CVE-2025-48105

Easy Flash Embed <= 1.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

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Vulnerability Records

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Plugin Profile
Latestv1.0

Easy Flash Embed

Vincent Boiardt

Author

Vincent Boiardt

4.0(4)
80/100
Last Updated
2017-11-28 (9y ago)
Active Installs
800+
Downloads
55,420
Requires WP
2.9+
Requires PHP
0+
Tested up to
WP 2.9.2
Created
2010-02-25 (17y ago)

Embed Flash easily and standard compliant with SWFObject using only a [swf] shortcode! In the text editor simply write something like: [swf src=”http://www.example.com/my-flash-file.swf” width=300 height=100] The attributes src, width and height are required Additional attributes includes: params flashvars version The attributes params, and flashvars should be written like “flashvar1=value&flashvar2=value” to function properly. If you want to specify a Flash version use version attribute. Default is 9. To provide alternative content for people without Flash, simply put some text between the [swf] brackets, e.g. [swf src=”http://www.example.com/my-flash-file.swf” width=300 height=100]You must have Flash to view this file[/swf]

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