Stored Cross-Site Scripting in Broadcast Live Video Streaming Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2024-12504

5.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Wordpress
Status
Broadcast Live Video – Live Streaming : Html5, Webrtc, Hls, Rtsp, Rtmp
Vendor
CVE Published:
23 January 2025

What is CVE-2024-12504?

The Broadcast Live Video – Live Streaming plugin for WordPress is exposed to a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability through the 'videowhisper_hls' shortcode. This flaw arises from inadequate input sanitization and output escaping for user-supplied attributes. As a result, authenticated users with contributor-level access or higher can inject malicious JavaScript into web pages. Such scripts will execute whenever a user visits the compromised page, posing significant security risks to affected sites.

Affected Version(s)

Broadcast Live Video – Live Streaming : HTML5, WebRTC, HLS, RTSP, RTMP * <= 6.1.9

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&s...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

muhammad yudha
.
The Cyber Security Vulnerability Database.