WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
Video Gallery - Vimeo and YouTube Gallery < 1.1.5 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Description
The plugin does not escape the Title and Description of the videos in a gallery before outputting them in attributes, leading to Stored Cross-Site Scripting issues
Proof of Concept
Add the following payload in the Title or Description of a Video added in a List/Gallery: "onmouseover=alert(/XSS/)// Then view the page/post with the embed gallery and move the mouse over the related video to trigger the XSS If the theme used is TwentyTwentyOne, the following payload can be used to trigger the XSS with minimal user interaction: a" style="animation-name:twentytwentyone-close-button-transition" onanimationend="alert(/XSS/)//
Affects Plugins
Fixed in 1.1.5 References
Classification
Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Asif Nawaz Minhas
Submitter
Asif Nawaz Minhas
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2021-09-21 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2021-09-21 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-04-12 (about 1 years ago)
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