CVE-2024-0827: CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in hammadh Play.ht – Make Your Blog Posts Accessible With Text to Speech Audio
The Play.ht – Make Your Blog Posts Accessible With Text to Speech Audio plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 3.6.4. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on several functions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to invoke those functions via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
CVE-2024-0827 is a CSRF vulnerability in the Play.ht WordPress plugin (versions up to 3.6.4) caused by missing or incorrect nonce validation on multiple functions. This allows attackers to craft forged requests that, if executed by an authenticated site administrator, can trigger unintended plugin actions. The vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and does not require privileges (PR:N) for the attacker, but the victim must be an authenticated admin. The CVSS 3.1 base score is 4.3, reflecting a medium severity with no confidentiality or availability impact but limited integrity impact.
Potential Impact
An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to induce an authenticated site administrator to perform unintended actions within the Play.ht plugin via forged requests. This could lead to limited integrity impacts on the affected WordPress site. There is no impact on confidentiality or availability. No known active exploitation has been reported.
Mitigation Recommendations
Patch status is not yet confirmed — check the vendor advisory for current remediation guidance. Until an official fix is released, administrators should exercise caution when clicking links and consider implementing additional CSRF protections or disabling the plugin if feasible.
CVE-2024-0827: CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in hammadh Play.ht – Make Your Blog Posts Accessible With Text to Speech Audio
Description
The Play.ht – Make Your Blog Posts Accessible With Text to Speech Audio plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 3.6.4. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on several functions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to invoke those functions via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
AI-Powered Analysis
Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
CVE-2024-0827 is a CSRF vulnerability in the Play.ht WordPress plugin (versions up to 3.6.4) caused by missing or incorrect nonce validation on multiple functions. This allows attackers to craft forged requests that, if executed by an authenticated site administrator, can trigger unintended plugin actions. The vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and does not require privileges (PR:N) for the attacker, but the victim must be an authenticated admin. The CVSS 3.1 base score is 4.3, reflecting a medium severity with no confidentiality or availability impact but limited integrity impact.
Potential Impact
An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to induce an authenticated site administrator to perform unintended actions within the Play.ht plugin via forged requests. This could lead to limited integrity impacts on the affected WordPress site. There is no impact on confidentiality or availability. No known active exploitation has been reported.
Mitigation Recommendations
Patch status is not yet confirmed — check the vendor advisory for current remediation guidance. Until an official fix is released, administrators should exercise caution when clicking links and consider implementing additional CSRF protections or disabling the plugin if feasible.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.1
- Assigner Short Name
- Wordfence
- Date Reserved
- 2024-01-23T16:47:26.990Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 699f6de6b7ef31ef0b590548
Added to database: 2/25/2026, 9:47:18 PM
Last enriched: 4/9/2026, 5:40:11 AM
Last updated: 4/12/2026, 5:14:50 PM
Views: 12
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