A security flaw has been discovered in vidIQ Vision for YouTube Extension 3.199.0 on Chrome. The affected element is the function window.addEventListener of the component postMessage Handler. Performing a manipulation of the argument vidiqEvent results in information disclosure. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. The exploit has been released to the public and may be used for attacks. The vendor explains: "At this time, vidIQ does not accept security vulnerability submissions, and we do not have a bug bounty program in place."
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Description A security flaw has been discovered in vidIQ Vision for YouTube Extension 3.199.0 on Chrome. The affected element is the function window.addEventListener of the component postMessage Handler. Performing a manipulation of the argument vidiqEvent results in information disclosure. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. The exploit has been released to the public and may be used for attacks. The vendor explains: "At this time, vidIQ does not accept security vulnerability submissions, and we do not have a bug bounty program in place."
Title vidIQ Vision for YouTube Extension postMessage window.addEventListener information disclosure
First Time appeared Vidiq
Vidiq vision For Youtube Extension
Weaknesses CWE-200
CWE-284
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:vidiq:vision_for_youtube_extension:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Vidiq
Vidiq vision For Youtube Extension
References
Metrics cvssV2_0

{'score': 5, 'vector': 'AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N/E:POC/RL:ND/RC:UR'}

cvssV3_0

{'score': 4.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:P/RL:X/RC:R'}

cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:P/RL:X/RC:R'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulDB

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-31T17:54:42.375Z

Reserved: 2026-08-31T04:55:45.384Z

Link: CVE-2026-82809

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-31T17:17:47.150

Modified: 2026-08-31T17:17:47.150

Link: CVE-2026-82809

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