CVE-2024-8666
Shoutcast Icecast HTML5 Radio Player <= 2.1.7 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
The Shoutcast Icecast HTML5 Radio Player plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'html5radio' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
6.4
Shoutcast Icecast HTML5 Radio Player <= 2.1.7 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
The Shoutcast Icecast HTML5 Radio Player plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'html5radio' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
- Record
CVE-2024-8666- CVSS 3.1
- 6.4 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2024-49336
6.4
The Shoutcast Icecast HTML5 Radio Player plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'html5radio' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
- Record
EUVD-2024-49336- CVSS 3.1
- 6.4 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-2wm3-7hxf-9q6x
6.4
The Shoutcast Icecast HTML5 Radio Player plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site...
The Shoutcast Icecast HTML5 Radio Player plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'html5radio' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
- Record
GHSA-2wm3-7hxf-9q6x- CVSS 3.1
- 6.4 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
6.4
The Shoutcast Icecast HTML5 Radio Player plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'html5radio' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
- Record
CVE-2024-8666- CVSS 3.1
- 6.4 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| first indexed | CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2024-8666 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.4) in Svnlabs Shoutcast Icecast Html5 Radio Player, published October 25, 2024. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.29%, the 21st percentile. No source names a fixed version.
References
wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7e870ae2-abae-457a-b3d1-75a96ec09d41?source=cve
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3398173
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8666
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shoutcast-icecast-html5-radio-player/trunk/shoutcast-icecast-html5-radio-player.php
github.com/advisories/GHSA-2wm3-7hxf-9q6x