Play.ht – Make Your Blog Posts Accessible With Text to Speech Audio: A security weakness
Play.ht – Make Your Blog Posts Accessible With Text to Speech Audio is affected by a security weakness. Exploitation requires an authenticated WordPress account. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- 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
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
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 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.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L