Description

The Play.ht – Make Your Blog Posts Accessible With Text to Speech Audio plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in all versions up to, and including, 3.6.4 via deserialization of untrusted input from the play_podcast_data post meta. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject a PHP Object. No known POP chain is present in the vulnerable plugin. If a POP chain is present via an additional plugin or theme installed on the target system, it could allow the attacker to delete arbitrary files, retrieve sensitive data, or execute code.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-1772

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 8.8

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor: hammadh

Product: Play.ht – Make Your Blog Posts Accessible With Text to Speech Audio

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 1.0% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 75.75% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-18 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: total

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-1772
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/83a595b7-379c-4202-abdd-d8ba4a30c6a4?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/play-ht/trunk/includes/class-ajax-handler.php#L138

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