What is CVE-2024-13156?

CVE-2024-13156 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Bplugins Html5 Video Player – Embed And Play Videos In Custom, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2025-01-14.

How severe is CVE-2024-13156?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-13156 known to be exploited?

3 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Bplugins Html5 Video Player – Embed And Play Videos In Custom

CVE-2024-13156

The HTML5 Video Player – mp4 Video Player Plugin and Block plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘heading’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.35 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.003 (27.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Bplugins Html5 Video Player – Embed And Play Videos In Custom — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-13156?: CVE-2024-13156 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Bplugins Html5 Video Player – Embed And Play Videos In Custom, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2025-01-14.
How severe is CVE-2024-13156?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-13156 known to be exploited?: 3 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.