Video Metabox

Video Metabox has one disclosed vulnerability in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2013; it is fixed as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 7.2, and the most serious one scores 7.2 out of 10. Severity breakdown: 0 critical and 1 high.

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

The one issue recorded for Video Metabox has a vendor fix available, so running the current release closes it.

Video Metabox is installed on roughly 30 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The current release is tested up to WordPress 0.

Strategic Overview

Avg CVSSHigh

7.2/ 10

Patch Coverage100%

Open

Fixed

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Highest severity on recordCVSS 7.2

Video Metabox <= 1.1 - Stored Cross Site Scripting

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Vulnerability Records

1 records


2013-10-15 00:00	Video Metabox <= 1.1 - Stored Cross Site Scripting Video Metabox <= 1.1	`N/A`	7.2 High	Anonymous	Yes

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Plugin Profile

Latestv1.2

Video Metabox

Author

Jesse Overright

3.5(2)

70/100

Last Updated

2014-09-10 (12y ago)

Active Installs

30+

Downloads

13,236

Requires WP

3.0+

Requires PHP

Tested up to

WP 0

Created

2013-10-08 (13y ago)

Video Metabox adds simple support for embedding video into your blog. Videos from YouTube and Vimeo can be added to posts or other content types quickly and easily, and will display above your post’s content. The video resizes automatically, so it will always look great no matter the device your visitors are using. Video Metabox takes the guess work out of adding a video to your blog. All you have to do is paste the URL of the video you want to embed into the video metabox, and the plugin will do the rest. Your videos will always fit in the width of the blog post, and will always look their best.

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