WordPress CVEs

Description

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.

Affected WordPress components

• HTML5 Video Player – embed fast, responsive videos with ease Plugin · html5-video-player
  Confirmed match Active
  Up to and including 2.5.35
  View on WordPress.org

A confirmed match is backed by the plugin or theme slug. A possible match is based on the product name only and should be verified.

Affected products and versions

• bplugins HTML5 Video Player – Embed and Play Videos in Custom Player — Up to and including 2.5.35

References

• plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/html5-video-player/trunk/dist/frontend.js
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3221089/
• wordpress.org https://wordpress.org/plugins/html5-video-player/#developers
• www.wordfence.com https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e0b26af2-d559-49bf-841a-1974360b3ad6?source=cve
• nvd.nist.gov Official NVD record