Plugin Vulnerability Allows Contributors to Perform Stored XSS Attacks
CVE-2024-2428
Currently unrated
What is CVE-2024-2428?
The Ultimate Video Player For WordPress WordPress plugin before 2.2.3 does not have proper capability check when updating its settings via a REST route, allowing Contributor and above users to update them. Furthermore, due to the lack of escaping in one of the settings, this also allows them to perform Stored XSS attacks
Affected Version(s)
The Ultimate Video Player For WordPress 0 < 2.2.3
Exploit Proof of Concept (PoC)
PoC code is written by security researchers to demonstrate the vulnerability can be exploited. PoC code is also a key component for weaponization which could lead to ransomware.