CVE-2024-13156

14.01.2025, 09:15

The HTML5 Video Player  mp4 Video Player Plugin and Block plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the heading parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.35 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Cross-site Scripting

Provider	Type	Base Score	Atk. Vector	Atk. Complexity	Priv. Required	Vector
NIST	NIST	6.4 MEDIUM	NETWORK	LOW	LOW	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Wordfence	CNA	6.4 MEDIUM				CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CISA-ADP	ADP	---				---

Awaiting analysis

This vulnerability is currently awaiting analysis.

Base Score

CVSS 3.x

EPSS Score

Percentile: 16%

Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
The software does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/html5-video-player/trunk/dist/frontend.js

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3221089/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/html5-video-player/#developers

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e0b26af2-d559-49bf-841a-1974360b3ad6?source=cve