CVE-2020-35748

FV Flowplayer Video Player <= 7.4.37.727 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

2021-01-15 00:00
Arcangelo Saracino

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 7.4.38.727
Affected Plugin
FV Flowplayer Video Player
Affected Version
<= 7.4.37.727
CVSS
6.4Medium
Weakness type
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE
CVE-2020-35748
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At a glance

CVE-2020-35748 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the FV Flowplayer Video Player WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 7.4.37.727. It carries a CVSS score of 6.4 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires an authenticated account. The issue is fixed in version 7.4.38.727; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed January 2021, reported by Arcangelo Saracino.

Vulnerability Overview

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in models/list-table.php in the FV Flowplayer Video Player plugin before 7.4.37.727 for WordPress allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the fv_wp_fvvideoplayer_src JSON field in the data parameter.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Reaching this weakness in FV Flowplayer Video Player <= 7.4.37.727 takes any authenticated account. Cross-site scripting happens when input from a request is written into a page without being escaped for the context it lands in, so the browser parses attacker-supplied text as markup or script.

Injected script runs with the privileges of whoever views the affected page, which is how these flaws turn into administrator session theft, silent account creation or persistent backdoors in page content. For FV Flowplayer Video Player the fix is 7.4.38.727: builds <= 7.4.37.727 are affected, anything from 7.4.38.727 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 7.4.38.727, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to FV Flowplayer Video Player: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: FV Flowplayer Video Player 7.4.38.727 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-35748https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a0e28aca-b95f-4041-a1ea-4be84dc55923https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-35748

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