Cross-site scripting in bPlugins HTML5 Audio Player – The Ultimate No-Code Podcast, MP3 &…
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.
Summary
The HTML5 Audio Player- Best WordPress Audio Player Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's widgets in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.19 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-4398
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-p65c-2jgw-xxvw
References
Other 5
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ca646202-b9e2-4272-b0e2-d39cd748fb8e?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/html5-audio-player/trunk/inc/Elementor/Widgets/Simple.php#L237
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/html5-audio-player/trunk/inc/elementor-widgets/fusion-audio-player.php#L275
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/html5-audio-player/trunk/inc/elementor-widgets/stamp-audio-player.php#L286
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/html5-audio-player/trunk/inc/elementor-widgets/playlist.php#L541
More bPlugins vulnerabilities
- TI-2024-05133 HTML5 Video Player < 2.5.27 - Unauthenticated SQLi CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
- TI-2024-00982 SQL injection in html5-video-player CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2023-00164 Html5 Audio Player < 2.1.12 - Contributor+ Stored XSS CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4
- TI-2025-11361 Missing authorization in bPlugins Document Embedder – Embed PDFs, Word, Excel, and Other… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.6
- TI-2025-07373 B Blocks <= 2.0.6 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via rgfr_registration Function CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-40456 WordPress MailChimp Block plugin <= 1.1.15 - Broken Access Control vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.3
Sources
- CVE-2024-4398 · CVE Program
- CVE-2024-4398 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-p65c-2jgw-xxvw · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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