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GHSA-P5MW-MG37-2VRH

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-01-01 15:30 – Updated: 2024-01-08 21:30

Details

The Html5 Video Player WordPress plugin before 2.5.19 does not sanitise and escape some of its player settings, which combined with missing capability checks around the plugin could allow any authenticated users, such as low as subscribers to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks against high privilege users like admins

Severity ?

5.4 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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  "modified": "2024-01-08T21:30:27Z",
  "published": "2024-01-01T15:30:34Z",
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CVE-2023-6485 (GCVE-0-2023-6485)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-01 14:18 – Updated: 2025-06-18 14:58

Title

Html5 Video Player < 2.5.19 - Subscriber+ Stored XSS

Summary

Severity ?

5.4 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CWE

CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Assigner

WPScan

References

URL

Tags

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/759b3866-c619-42…

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Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Unknown	Html5 Video Player	Affected: 0 , < 2.5.19 (semver)

Credits

Krzysztof Zając (CERT PL) WPScan

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Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-P5MW-MG37-2VRH

CVE-2023-6485 (GCVE-0-2023-6485)

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