# Video Player for YouTube – Embed Videos Your Visitors Will Love to Watch

> A modern, accessible, fully customizable & user-friendly YouTube Video Player for WordPress.

Source: https://todaywp.com (Today WP, free and read-only). Refreshed 2026-11-13 09:28 UTC.

## Facts (WordPress.org)

- Slug: `yt-player`
- Author: bPlugins
- Version: 2.1.5
- Active installs: 1,000+
- Last update: 2026-11-12 (1 day ago)
- Tested up to: WordPress 7.1.4 (current: 7.1.4)
- Requires: WordPress 6.5, PHP 7.1
- Tags: plyr, video player, youtube, YouTube embed, youtube Video Player
- Page: https://wordpress.org/plugins/yt-player/

## Checks (against WordPress 7.1.4)

- OK: Updated 1 day 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

- 2026-10-29 MEDIUM: Missing Authorization (up to 2.1.3). CVE-2026-85007, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/714f9ea7-324a-4d19-8289-1a067e55b703?source=api-prod
- 2026-09-05 MEDIUM: Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection (before 2.1.0). CVE-2026-84937, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/eedad1b3-a69d-4972-ad5b-031948ec5eca?source=api-prod
- 2026-07-23 MEDIUM: Missing Authorization (up to 2.1.2). CVE-2026-27422, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bfcbd6fb-f599-4a85-aabb-d03d2716ba00?source=api-prod
- 2023-07-18 MEDIUM: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via fs_request_get (up to 1.5.1). WF-5253fe2b-040b-417c-b257-0cb59ee5aa6e-74, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5253fe2b-040b-417c-b257-0cb59ee5aa6e?source=api-prod
- 2022-03-04 MEDIUM: Missing Authorization Checks (before 1.5.1). WF-39fb0499-9ab4-4a2f-b0db-ece86bcf4d42-39, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/39fb0499-9ab4-4a2f-b0db-ece86bcf4d42?source=api-prod
- 2021-09-22 MEDIUM: Cross-Site Scripting (before 1.4). CVE-2021-24414, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0dbed7a2-730d-42f2-9d57-3f07900d33e3?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.

Compare: https://todaywp.com/plugins/compare?slugs=yt-player · HTML: https://todaywp.com/plugins/yt-player