Fv Flowplayer Video PlayerWordPress extension · Foliovision
CVE-2023-30499
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedUnauth. Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in FolioVision FV Flowplayer Video Player plugin <= 7.5.32.7212 versions.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceUnauthenticated reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the FV Flowplayer Video Player WordPress plugin. The vulnerability allows an attacker to inject malicious JavaScript code through URL parameters, which gets reflected back to the user without proper sanitization or output encoding.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data
Fv Flowplayer Video PlayerWordPress extension
<= 7.5.32.7212CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Confirm FV Flowplayer Video Player plugin is installedCheck the WordPress plugins directory or use 'wp plugin list' command to see if FV Flowplayer Video Player appears in the list of installed pluginsAffected if Plugin is not installed means not affected; if installed, continue to version check
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Identify the installed plugin versionRead the main plugin file header (typically in wp-content/plugins/fv-flowplayer-video-player/) or run 'wp plugin get fv-flowplayer-video-player --format=json' to retrieve the version numberAffected if Version number is 7.5.32.7212 or lower indicates the affected version range
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Verify the vulnerable URL parameter handling is accessibleTest by requesting any page on the site with a crafted URL parameter (for example, appending ?test=<script>alert(1)</script> to the site URL) and checking if the parameter value is reflected in the response without sanitizationAffected if The URL parameter value is reflected unescaped in the HTML response indicates the vulnerability is present and exploitable
The environment is affected if the FV Flowplayer Video Player plugin is installed with version 7.5.32.7212 or lower and URL parameters are reflected without sanitization on the site.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
dbcve · scopedUpdate the FV Flowplayer Video Player plugin to a version newer than 7.5.32.7212 once a patch is released by the vendor, or implement WAF rules to block XSS attack patterns in the meantime.
Latest available version of FV Flowplayer Video Player (verify version > 7.5.32.7212)
- 1. Navigate to the WordPress admin dashboard
- 2. Go to Plugins > Installed Plugins
- 3. Locate FV Flowplayer Video Player
- 4. Check if an update is available and install the latest version
- 5. Verify the plugin is updated to a version higher than 7.5.32.7212
Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.
Fix this in Fv Flowplayer Video Player
Scoped from the published advisory
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- Implementation1.0 h
- Testing2.0 h
- Review / QA1.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
Primary sourcesPractitioner notes
ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2023-30499 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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