CVE-2026-85000
EmbedPress < 4.6.8 - Unauthenticated YouTube API Quota Consumption and Database Bloating
MEDIUM 5.3EPSS 0.2%
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.
- Affected
- EmbedPress
- CVSS v3.1 CNA
- 5.3 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N - EPSS
- 0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 14th percentile
- Published
- 2026-10-14