The plugin does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)
Put the following payload in the Youtube API Key settings and save: test">. The XSS will be triggered when viewing the settings page again
CPE | Name | Operator | Version |
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broken-link-checker | lt | 1.11.20 |