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Html5 Audio Player < 2.1.3 - Contributor+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The plugin does not sanitise or validate the parameters from its shortcode, allowing users with a role as low as contributor to set Cross-Site Scripting payload in them which will be triggered in the page/s with the embed malicious shortcode

Proof of Concept

Log in as contributor and add the following shortcode in a page (there is no need to have an existing Audio Player): [player id="=0; alert(/XSS/);x"]

Then view the post to trigger the XSS 

Affects Plugins

html5-audio-player
Fixed in version 2.1.3

References

CVE
CVE-2021-24412

Classification

Type

XSS

OWASP top 10
A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE
CWE-79

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Michał Lipiński

Submitter website
https://beastiecode.com
Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
c4ed3e52-cbe0-46dc-ab43-65de78cfb225

Timeline

Publicly Published

2021-09-20 (about 10 months ago)

Added

2021-09-20 (about 10 months ago)

Last Updated

2022-04-08 (about 4 months ago)

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