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WordPress Photo Gallery Plugin < 1.5.67 XSS Vulnerability
Information
Severity
Severity
Low
Family
Family
Web application abuses
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
3.5
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
3 years ago
Modified
Modified
3 years ago
Summary
WordPress Photo Gallery plugin is prone to a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
The WordPress plugin does not properly sanitise the gallery title, allowing high privilege users to create one with XSS payload in it, which will be triggered when another user will view the gallery list or the affected gallery in the admin dashboard. This is due to an incomplete fix of CVE-2019-16117.
Affected Software
Affected Software
WordPress Photo Gallery plugin before version 1.5.67.
Detection Method
Detection Method
Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.
Solution
Solution
Update to version 1.5.67 or later.