CVE-2024-4398 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The HTML5 Audio Player- Best WordPress Audio Player Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's widgets in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.19 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00228.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

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References

Link	Providers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/html5-audio-player/trunk/inc/Elementor/Widgets/Simple.php#L237
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/html5-audio-player/trunk/inc/elementor-widgets/fusion-audio-player.php#L275
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/html5-audio-player/trunk/inc/elementor-widgets/playlist.php#L541
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/html5-audio-player/trunk/inc/elementor-widgets/stamp-audio-player.php#L286
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ca646202-b9e2-4272-b0e2-d39cd748fb8e?source=cve

History

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-79

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2024-05-10T07:33:39.311Z

Updated: 2026-04-08T17:22:09.083Z

Reserved: 2024-05-01T18:12:13.373Z

Link: CVE-2024-4398

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T20:40:47.155Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-05-14T15:43:32.840

Modified: 2026-04-08T19:21:37.697

Link: CVE-2024-4398

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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