CVE-2024-0828 Play.ht – Make Your Blog Posts Accessible With Text to Speech Audio <= 3.6.4 - Missing Authorization
Authenticated subscribers can bypass authorization to delete, retrieve, or modify post metadata and protected content in the Play.ht WordPress plugin.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-0828?
CVE-2024-0828 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in hammadh Play.ht – Make Your Blog Posts Accessible With Text to Speech Audio, published on 13 Mar 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-0828?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Hammadh Play.ht.
How do I fix CVE-2024-0828?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-0828 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2024-0828 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-0828 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in hammadh Play.ht – Make Your Blog Posts Accessible With Text to Speech Audio
Sources
Also known as GHSA-722j-2mgg-rgc3.