Play.ht – Make Your Blog Posts Accessible With Text to Speech Audio <= 3.6.4 - Missing Authorization

2024-02-22 00:00

Francesco Carlucci

Strategic Overview

Status

Unpatched

Affected PluginPlay.ht – Make Your Blog Posts Accessible With Text to Speech Audio

Affected Version<= 3.6.4

CVSS5.4Medium

CVECVE-2024-0828

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Vulnerability Overview

The Play.ht – Make Your Blog Posts Accessible With Text to Speech Audio plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of functionality due to a missing capability check on several functions in all versions up to, and including, 3.6.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber access or higher, to delete, retrieve, or modify post metadata, retrieve posts contents of protected posts, modify conversion data and delete article audio.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement. --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-0828 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5708a414-7cd8-4926-8871-3248ebf4c39d

CVSS Vector

5.4

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredLow
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityNone

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