What is CVE-2024-5522?

CVE-2024-5522 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Bplugins Html5 Video Player, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-06-20.

How severe is CVE-2024-5522?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-5522 known to be exploited?

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

SQL Injection in Bplugins Html5 Video Player

CVE-2024-5522

The HTML5 Video Player WordPress plugin before 2.5.27 does not sanitize and escape a parameter from a REST route before using it in a SQL statement, allowing unauthenticated users to perform SQL injection attacks

Vulnerability class: SQL Injection

Published 2024-06-20 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.026 (84.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 85th percentile — 84.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.026 · newest: 0.026 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Bplugins Html5 Video Player
Html5 Video Player — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-89 — SQL Injection

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/bc76ef95-a2a9-4185-8ed9-1059097a506a/ (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-5522?: CVE-2024-5522 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Bplugins Html5 Video Player, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-06-20.
How severe is CVE-2024-5522?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-5522 known to be exploited?: 8 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.