diff --git a/projects/packages/comments/changelog/fix-comments-youtube-embed-shortcode b/projects/packages/comments/changelog/fix-comments-youtube-embed-shortcode
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f002e4fbe899
--- /dev/null
+++ b/projects/packages/comments/changelog/fix-comments-youtube-embed-shortcode
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Significance: patch
+Type: fixed
+
+Show YouTube and other video players in comments on WordPress.com, and show embeds that need a script, such as TikTok, as links.
diff --git a/projects/packages/comments/src/editor/class-embeds.php b/projects/packages/comments/src/editor/class-embeds.php
index 95359e582620..77c8c9b71751 100644
--- a/projects/packages/comments/src/editor/class-embeds.php
+++ b/projects/packages/comments/src/editor/class-embeds.php
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ private static function respond( $data ) {
 		unset( $data->scripts );
 		$data->html = self::sanitize_html( $data->html ?? '' );
 
-		// Nothing to show without the script, so the comment will hold the link. Say so now.
+		// No player or photo to show, so the comment will hold the link. Say so now.
 		if ( '' === $data->html ) {
 			return new WP_Error( 'oembed_invalid_url', get_status_header_desc( 404 ), array( 'status' => 404 ) );
 		}
@@ -196,9 +196,8 @@ private static function respond( $data ) {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * A provider's HTML as markup alone, or '' when nothing visible is left. Its script would run
-	 * first-party for every reader on a commenter's say-so, and so would an inline handler, so the
-	 * HTML goes through kses with core's post rules plus the iframe the players need.
+	 * A provider's player or photo, rebuilt as a bare iframe or img, or '' when it sent neither. Nothing else of
+	 * its HTML is kept, so no script or inline handler runs first-party for every reader on a commenter's say-so.
 	 *
 	 * @param mixed $html What the provider sent.
 	 * @return string
@@ -208,35 +207,36 @@ public static function sanitize_html( $html ) {
 			return '';
 		}
 
-		// Whole, so a script's body does not survive as text once kses drops its tags.
-		$html = (string) preg_replace( '#<script\b[^>]*>.*?(?:</script\s*>|$)#is', '', $html );
-
-		$allowed = wp_kses_allowed_html( 'post' );
-		unset( $allowed['object'] );
-		$allowed['iframe'] = array(
-			'src'             => true,
-			'width'           => true,
-			'height'          => true,
-			'title'           => true,
-			'allow'           => true,
-			'allowfullscreen' => true,
-			'frameborder'     => true,
-			'scrolling'       => true,
-			'loading'         => true,
-			'referrerpolicy'  => true,
-			'sandbox'         => true,
-			'style'           => true,
-			'class'           => true,
-			'name'            => true,
+		$kept = array(
+			'IFRAME' => array( 'width', 'height', 'title', 'allow', 'allowfullscreen', 'frameborder', 'loading', 'referrerpolicy', 'sandbox' ),
+			'IMG'    => array( 'width', 'height', 'alt' ),
 		);
 
-		$html = wp_kses( $html, $allowed );
+		$sent = new \WP_HTML_Tag_Processor( $html );
+		while ( $sent->next_tag() ) {
+			$name = (string) $sent->get_tag();
+			$src  = $sent->get_attribute( 'src' );
+			$src  = is_string( $src ) ? esc_url_raw( str_starts_with( $src, '//' ) ? 'https:' . $src : $src ) : '';
 
-		if ( ! preg_match( '#<(iframe|img|video|audio)\b#i', $html ) && '' === trim( wp_strip_all_tags( $html ) ) ) {
-			return '';
+			if ( ! isset( $kept[ $name ] ) || 'https' !== wp_parse_url( $src, PHP_URL_SCHEME ) ) {
+				continue;
+			}
+
+			// A tag of our own, so only the attributes listed above come along.
+			$tag = new \WP_HTML_Tag_Processor( 'IFRAME' === $name ? '<iframe></iframe>' : '<img>' );
+			$tag->next_tag();
+			$tag->set_attribute( 'src', $src );
+			foreach ( $kept[ $name ] as $attribute ) {
+				$value = $sent->get_attribute( $attribute );
+				if ( null !== $value ) {
+					$tag->set_attribute( $attribute, $value );
+				}
+			}
+
+			return $tag->get_updated_html();
 		}
 
-		return $html;
+		return '';
 	}
 
 	/**