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CVE-2026-16776: MP3 Audio Player <= 5.14.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode Attributes

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-10-10 · updated 2026-10-13
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The MP3 Audio Player – Music Player, Podcast Player & Radio by Sonaar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode Attributes in all versions up to, and including, 5.14.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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. WordPress's save-time wp_kses_post does not neutralize the payload because the attack is delivered via shortcode attributes rather than raw HTML in post content, allowing the unescaped values to survive to render time.

Affected products

• sonaar MP3 Audio Player – Music Player, Podcast Player & Radio by Sonaar: through 5.14.2

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mp3-music-player-by-sonaar/tags/5.13/admin/class-sonaar-music-admin.php#L8672
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mp3-music-player-by-sonaar/tags/5.13/includes/class-sonaar-music-widget.php#L147
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mp3-music-player-by-sonaar/tags/5.13/includes/class-sonaar-music-widget.php#L1923
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mp3-music-player-by-sonaar/tags/5.13/includes/class-sonaar-music-widget.php#L71
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3620318%40mp3-music-player-by-sonaar&new=3620318%40mp3-music-player-by-sonaar
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3723825%40mp3-music-player-by-sonaar&new=3723825%40mp3-music-player-by-sonaar
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5e4b0fa4-51b7-4892-9087-30618900e069?source=cve

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