WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Galleries by Angie Makes <= 1.67 - Contributor+ Stored XSS via Shortcode

Description

The plugin does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Proof of Concept

[gallery ids='1' captions="' onmouseover='alert(/XSS/)'"]

Note: ids is an attachment id from the media library

Affects Plugins

No known fix

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Lana Codes
Submitter
Lana Codes
Submitter website
Submitter twitter
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2023-02-02 (about 1 years ago)
Added
2023-02-02 (about 1 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-02-02 (about 1 years ago)

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