# CVE-2024-0827: Play.ht – Make Your Blog Posts Accessible With Text to Speech Audio <= 3.6.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

> Unauthenticated attackers can trick administrators into performing actions via forged requests due to missing nonce validation in the Play.ht WordPress plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 13 Mar 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-xvv7-wqpf-2qrv

## What is CVE-2024-0827?

CVE-2024-0827 is a medium-severity vulnerability in hammadh Play.ht – Make Your Blog Posts Accessible With Text to Speech Audio, published on 13 Mar 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-0827?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Hammadh Play.ht.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-0827?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-0827 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-0827 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-0827 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in hammadh Play.ht – Make Your Blog Posts Accessible With Text to Speech Audio

- [CVE-2024-1772](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1772/): Deserialization in Play.ht – Make Your Blog Posts Accessible With Text to Speech Audio (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2024-0828](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-0828/): Play.ht – Make Your Blog Posts Accessible With Text to Speech Audio <= 3.6.4 - Missing Authorization (medium 5.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-0827 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-0827 is a medium-severity vulnerability in hammadh Play.ht – Make Your Blog Posts Accessible With Text to Speech Audio, published on 13 Mar 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-0827 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: hammadh Play.ht – Make Your Blog Posts Accessible With Text to Speech Audio. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-0827/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-0827/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-0827
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-0827
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-0827

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-0827/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.