🛡️ CVE-2024-6338 — fv-flowplayer-video-player
Description
The FV Flowplayer Video Player plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based SQL Injection via the ‘exclude’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 7.5.46.7212 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.
How this vulnerability can be exploited
This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.
Weakness class
CVE-2024-6338 is classified as CWE-89: SQL Injection. Untrusted input is concatenated into an SQL statement, letting an attacker change the query and reach data the request should not return.
Affected software
CVE-2024-6338 is recorded against 1 package.
- fv-flowplayer-video-player (fixed in 7.5.47.7212)
Timeline and source
Published on 19 July 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.
References
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
wordpress.org
www.wordfence.com
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
wordpress.org
www.wordfence.com
Details
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected Packages
| Software | From version | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| fv-flowplayer-video-player | — | 7.5.47.7212 |
References
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