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CVE-2024-5522: HTML5 Video Player < 2.5.27 - Unauthenticated SQLi

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 27/100)

A ready-made attack module is public (Nuclei); exploiting it takes no special expertise.
Public proof-of-concept code exists (GitHub); there is no record of exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 2.6% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 85.5% of all records.
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
Fixed version: Unknown HTML5 Video Player 2.5.27.
Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Unknown HTML5 Video Player 2.5.27 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

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

MediumCVSS 6.5 · v3.1—Proof of concept Fix available

Published: Jun 20, 2024
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 2.6% · 85th percentile
CWE: CWE-89

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 26 / 40 · 6.5 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 1 / 30 · 2.6%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: proof of concept
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
bplugins	html5 video player	cpe:2.3:a:bplugins:html5_video_player

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

bplugins html5 video playerbefore 2.5.27

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (WPScan). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

Unknown HTML5 Video Player
- before 2.5.27affected · semver

Same product

bplugins: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2024-1061The 'HTML5 Video Player' WordPress Plugin, version < 2.5.25 is affected by an unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability in the 'id' parame
42Plan
CVE-2024-43296WordPress HTML5 Video Player plugin <= 2.5.30 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
35Monitor
CVE-2024-7727HTML5 Video Player – mp4 Video Player Plugin and Block <= 2.5.32 - Missing Authorization in multiple functions via h5vp_ajax_handler
21Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2023-6485Jan 1, 2024 · Html5 Video Player < 2.5.19 - Subscriber+ Stored XSS
21Monitor
Later →CVE-2024-7721Sep 11, 2024 · HTML5 Video Player – mp4 Video Player Plugin and Block <= 2.5.34 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Limited Options Update
17Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
Unknown HTML5 Video Player	2.5.27	Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

Proof of concept available

A public proof of concept or detection signature exists. Exploit knowledge is out there; don't delay patching.

Evidence

Nuclei detection template ×1
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub ×2

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Public exploit evidence
Source	Kind	Date
Nuclei detection template	Nuclei template CVE-2024-5522	—
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub	stars:0	2024-09-11
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub	stars:10	2024-10-01

Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

PublishedJun 20, 2024
First PoCSep 11, 2024+83 d
TodayNov 1, 2026+865 d

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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Mayank Deshmukhfinder
WPScancoordinator

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

CVE-2024-1061142 days apartThe 'HTML5 Video Player' WordPress Plugin, version < 2.5.25 is affected by an unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability in the 'id' parame
42Plan

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)

Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.

TR-24-0726 · Jun 24, 2024(WordPress Eklenti Güvenlik Bildirimi)

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Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
No account or password is required.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: low · data can be read
Integrity: low · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: none

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: Low
Integrity impact: Low
Availability impact: None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-89 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

CVSS vector

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

nvd-secondary

Root cause

The query text is built by concatenating user input. The database cannot tell where the data ends and the command begins.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-89 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1const owner = req.query.owner;
2const rows = await db.query(
3  "SELECT * FROM files WHERE owner = '" + owner + "'"
4);

Fixed

1const owner = req.query.owner;
2const rows = await db.query(
3  "SELECT * FROM files WHERE owner = $1",
4  [owner]
5);

Attack context

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Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

Fix✗ → ✓Sep 28, 2026, 10:11 PM UTC

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