# CVE-2026-33683: AVideo vulnerable to Stored XSS via html\_entity\_decode() Reversing xss\_esc() Sanitization in Channel About Field

- Also known as: GHSA-GHX5-7JJG-Q2J7
- Severity: CVSS 5.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-03-23 · Updated: 2026-03-25

## Affected

- WWBN AVideo: through 26.0
- wwbn/avideo (Packagist): through 26.0

## Description

WWBN AVideo is an open source video platform. In versions up to and including 26.0, a sanitization order-of-operations flaw in the user profile "about" field allows any registered user to inject arbitrary JavaScript that executes when other users visit their channel page. The `xss_esc()` function entity-encodes input before `strip_specific_tags()` can match dangerous HTML tags, and `html_entity_decode()` on output reverses the encoding, restoring the raw malicious HTML. Commit 7cfdc380dae1e56bbb5de581470d9e9957445df0 contains a patch.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on WWBN AVideo, wwbn/avideo, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/WWBN/AVideo/security/advisories/GHSA-ghx5-7jjg-q2j7
- https://github.com/WWBN/AVideo/commit/7cfdc380dae1e56bbb5de581470d9e9957445df0

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