WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Photo Gallery by Ays < 6.3.9 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Description

The plugin is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
gallery-photo-gallery
Fixed in 6.3.9

References

CVE
CVE-2025-57947
URL
https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/gallery-photo-gallery/vulnerability/wordpress-photo-gallery-by-ays-plugin-6-3-6-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability

Classification

Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE
CWE-79
CVSS
5.9 (medium)

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Abu Hurayra
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
4dae4494-27b1-4ecb-882e-20d63ff987e5

Timeline

Publicly Published
2025-09-22 (about 8 months ago)
Added
2025-09-26 (about 8 months ago)
Last Updated
2025-10-06 (about 7 months ago)

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