CVE-2024-7721

HTML5 Video Player – mp4 Video Player Plugin and Block <= 2.5.34 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Limited Options Update

2024-09-10 15:52
Lucio Sá

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 2.5.35
Affected Plugin
HTML5 Video Player – embed fast, responsive videos with ease
Affected Version
<= 2.5.34
CVSS
4.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
CVE
CVE-2024-7721
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At a glance

CVE-2024-7721 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the HTML5 Video Player WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.5.34. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Subscriber level or above. The issue is fixed in version 2.5.35; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed September 2024, reported by Lucio Sá.

Vulnerability Overview

The HTML5 Video Player – mp4 Video Player Plugin and Block plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'save_password' function in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.34. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to set any options that are not explicitly checked as false to an array, including enabling user registration if it has been disabled.

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-862: Missing Authorization

HTML5 Video Player <= 2.5.34 carries this weakness at save_password, and reaching it takes an account at Subscriber level or above. A missing authorization check means a function is reachable by anyone who can reach the endpoint, because the code never asks whether the caller is allowed to perform the action.

Any user who can reach the endpoint gets to run an action reserved for higher-privileged roles, from reading protected data to changing settings or content. For HTML5 Video Player the fix is 2.5.35: builds <= 2.5.34 are affected, anything from 2.5.35 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.5.35, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: HTML5 Video Player 2.5.35 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-7721https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6dc3f308-d1e1-430b-bccd-168c0972fe7chttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-7721

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