Embed Privacy
Embed Privacy has 2 disclosed vulnerabilities in the WordSec catalog, reported between 2023 and 2026; all 2 are fixed as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 6.8, and the most serious one scores 8.1 out of 10. Severity breakdown: 0 critical and 1 high.
The most common weakness is Cross-Site Scripting, behind 1 of the records (50%). Other recurring categories include Path Traversal.
Every one of the 2 issues recorded for Embed Privacy has a vendor fix available, so running the current release closes all known holes.
2 independent researchers contributed these findings, one record each. Embed Privacy is installed on roughly 10,000 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The current release is tested up to WordPress 7.1.
CVE-2026-57346Embed Privacy <= 1.12.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary File Deletion
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Embed Privacy
Author
epiphyt
Content embedded from external sites such as YouTube or Twitter is loaded immediately when visitors access your site. Embed Privacy addresses this issue and prevents the loading of these contents until the visitor decides to allow loading of external content. But Embed Privacy not only protects your visitor’s privacy but also makes your site load faster. All embeds will be replaced by placeholders, ready for you to apply style as you wish. With only a couple of lines of CSS. By clicking on the placeholder the respective content will then be loaded. Note: This plugins requires the PHP extension “Document Object Model” (php-dom). Contribution Feel free to contribute. The code is available at GitHub. Documentation You can find the documentation for Embed Privacy at docs.epiph.yt.
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