CVE-2024-5205

CVSS 3.1 Score 6.4 of 10 (medium)

Details

Published May 24, 2024

Summary

CVE-2024-5205 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Videojs HTML5 Player plugin for WordPress. This issue, present in all versions up to 1.1.11, enables authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject malicious scripts. The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes within the plugin's videojs_video shortcode. Consequently, any web script injected through this vulnerability will execute whenever an unsuspecting user accesses an affected page.

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