Flash player widget <= 1.3 — Content Spoofing
938e8f54-56f0-4066-bc78-ebfc2abe0743Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: all versionsNo patch available
What to do until a fix ships- Severity
- Medium4.7
- CVSS
- 4.7CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:RUser interaction- Required
S:CScope- Changed
C:NConfidentiality- None
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
flash-player-widget flash-player-widget
- Affectedall versions
- PatchedNo fix yet
No patched version available.
You are affected if you run all versions. No fixed version has been released.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under flash-player-widget.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
- No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.
What to do
- 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.
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch flash-player-widget to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Henri Salo (fgeek).
The Flash player widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Content Spoofing in versions up to, and including, 1.3. This is due to insufficient sanitization of user input on the 'mp3' parameter. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to to inject arbitrary content in pages if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 4.7
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- VulnCrest content
- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.