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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

2 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 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.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)