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Medium · 6.5 Scanner template Public exploit CVE-2024-5522 EUVD-2024-46726GHSA-3vf3-j8cr-x4g6

HTML5 Video Player < 2.5.27 - Unauthenticated SQLi

Published Jun 20, 2024 · Updated Aug 1, 2024 · Assigned by WPScan

Category: Web / CMS

Description

The HTML5 Video Player WordPress plugin before 2.5.27 does not sanitize and escape a parameter from a REST route before using it in a SQL statement, allowing unauthenticated users to perform SQL injection attacks

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— HTML5 Video Player < 2.5.27 2.5.27

Public exploits

Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.

Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.

GitHub 2 repositories

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

Automated scanner template

A ready-made Nuclei template detects this vulnerability automatically. Vulnerabilities with public scanner templates are typically probed across the internet soon after the template appears — exposed systems should be patched first.

Source: projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates (MIT) — updated daily. Only links are listed.

References