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CVE-2024-5522 (GCVE-0-2024-5522)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-20 06:00 – Updated: 2024-08-01 21:18
VLAI
Title
HTML5 Video Player < 2.5.27 - Unauthenticated SQLi
Summary
The HTML5 Video Player WordPress plugin before 2.5.27 does not sanitize and escape a parameter from a REST route before using it in a SQL statement, allowing unauthenticated users to perform SQL injection attacks
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-06-20 16:08 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/bc76ef95-a2a9-41… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Unknown HTML5 Video Player Affected: 0 , < 2.5.27 (semver)
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bplugins html5_video_player Affected: 0 , < 2.5.27 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:bplugins:html5_video_player:2.5.27:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
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Credits
Mayank Deshmukh WPScan
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