Html5 Video Player Plugin up to 2.5.18 on WordPress Setting cross site scripting

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Html5 Video Player Plugin up to 2.5.18 on WordPress. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Setting Handler. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2023-6485. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Html5 Video Player Plugin up to 2.5.18 on WordPress (Multimedia Player Software). This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Setting Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product 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. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

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

The weakness was disclosed 01/01/2024 by Krzysztof Zając. The advisory is shared at wpscan.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-6485 since 12/04/2023. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 2.5.19 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Multimedia Player Software

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• Html5 Video Player Plugin

Version

• 2.5.0
• 2.5.1
• 2.5.2
• 2.5.3
• 2.5.4
• 2.5.5
• 2.5.6
• 2.5.7
• 2.5.8
• 2.5.9
• 2.5.10
• 2.5.11
• 2.5.12
• 2.5.13
• 2.5.14
• 2.5.15
• 2.5.16
• 2.5.17
• 2.5.18

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