Play.ht – Make Your Blog Posts Accessible With Text to Speech Audio: Cross-site request forgery
Play.ht – Make Your Blog Posts Accessible With Text to Speech Audio is affected by cross-site request forgery. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. Exploitation relies on a signed-in privileged user submitting an attacker-controlled request.
- Component
- Play.ht – Make Your Blog Posts Accessible With Text to Speech Audio
- Plugin slug
play-ht- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Mar 13, 2024
This CVE was published Mar 13, 2024 and is one of 4 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Play.ht – Make Your Blog Posts Accessible With Text to Speech Audio to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Play.ht – Make Your Blog Posts Accessible With Text to Speech Audio plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 3.6.4. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on several functions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to invoke those functions via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N