foliovision FV Flowplayer Video Player Plugin up to 7.5.49.7212 on WordPress Setting cross site scripting

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A vulnerability was found in foliovision FV Flowplayer Video Player Plugin up to 7.5.49.7212 on WordPress. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the component Setting Handler. Performing a manipulation results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-7556. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in foliovision FV Flowplayer Video Player Plugin up to 7.5.49.7212 on WordPress. This affects an unknown code block of the component Setting Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The FV Flowplayer Video Player plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the comment text in all versions up to, and including, 7.5.49.7212 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. Exploitation requires an administrator to have enabled the non-default 'Parse Vimeo and YouTube links' (parse_comments) plugin setting, and requires a submitted comment to be approved by an administrator before the payload is publicly delivered.

The weakness was presented by Matthew Rollings and Youcef Hamdani. It is possible to read the advisory at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-7556 since 04/30/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 7.5.49.7212 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Multimedia Player Software

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• foliovision

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• FV Flowplayer Video Player Plugin

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• 7.5.49.7212

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