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WWBN AVideo: HTML Injection in notifySubscribers.json.php Enables Platform-Branded Phishing Emails to Channel Subscribers

Published May 11, 2026

Description

WWBN AVideo is an open source video platform. In versions up to and including 29.0, objects/notifySubscribers.json.php takes the raw message POST parameter and passes it into sendSiteEmail(), which substitutes it directly into an HTML email template (via str_replace on the {message} placeholder) and renders it with PHPMailer::msgHTML(). There is no HTML sanitization, character escaping, or output encoding on the attacker-controlled message between $_POST['message'] and the rendered email. Any authenticated user with upload permission can therefore broadcast arbitrary HTML — phishing links, tracking pixels, CSS/UI spoofing — to every subscriber on their channel (up to 10,000 recipients per invocation). The email is sent From: the platform's configured contact address and wrapped in the site's official logo and title, so attacker-supplied HTML arrives with the appearance of an official platform communication. Commit https://github.com/WWBN/AVideo/commit/ contains an updated fix.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner GitHub_M
Published May 11, 2026
Updated May 13, 2026
Reserved May 4, 2026
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated May 13, 2026
NVD
Status Deferred
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
ENISA EUVD
Assigner GitHub_M
Published May 11, 2026
Updated May 13, 2026
Exploited since n/a
EUVD-2026-29312 GHSA-G9CM-RXP7-6GV5