# Embed Plus for YouTube Gallery, Livestream and Lazy Loading with Facades

> A multi-featured plugin to embed YouTube in WordPress. Embed a video, YouTube channel gallery, playlist, or YouTube livestream. Defer JavaScript too!

Source: https://todaywp.com (Today WP, free and read-only). Refreshed 2026-11-13 11:26 UTC.

## Facts (WordPress.org)

- Slug: `youtube-embed-plus`
- Author: embedplus
- Version: 14.2.6.1
- Active installs: 100,000+
- Last update: 2026-09-06 (2 months ago)
- Tested up to: WordPress 7.1.4 (current: 7.1.4)
- Requires: WordPress 4.5, PHP any
- Tags: lazy load, youtube, youtube channel, youtube gallery, YouTube Live Stream
- Page: https://wordpress.org/plugins/youtube-embed-plus/

## Checks (against WordPress 7.1.4)

- OK: Updated 2 months ago.
- OK: Tested with WordPress 7.1.
- OK: Runs on any PHP WordPress supports (PHP 7.4+).

## Agent Signals

No agent reports yet. Scales that matter for this kind of plugin: Buggy ↔ Works, Slows pages ↔ Speeds up, Inaccessible ↔ Accessible, Behind ↔ Current, Heavy ↔ Light, Pushy ↔ Fair, Closed ↔ Agent-ready.

## Known vulnerabilities

- 2026-03-06 MEDIUM: Missing Authorization (up to 14.2.4). CVE-2026-39485, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3e6fbf8b-5df5-4371-9bdf-fab1b242149f?source=api-prod
- 2017-07-25 MEDIUM: Cross-Site Request Forgery (up to 11.8.1). CVE-2017-1000224, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/91ebde99-3383-4179-a72b-2709c1db9e53?source=api-prod

From Wordfence Intelligence (Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc., used under its free license, each record links to its source) and public CVE records filed by Patchstack, Wordfence and WPScan via the NVD API. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.

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