Play.ht – Make Your Blog Posts Accessible With Text to Speech Audio <= 3.6.4 - Missing Authorization

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-0828
CVSS Medium (5.4)
Publicly Published February 22, 2024
Last Updated July 29, 2024
Researcher Francesco Carlucci
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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug play-ht (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 3.6.4
Patched Version
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