QID 150527

Date Published: 2022-06-16

QID 150527: WordPress Photo Gallery Plugin: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (CVE-2022-1282)

Photo Gallery plugin is a feature-rich, yet easy-to-use WordPress tool, which lets you add mobile-friendly image galleries and gallery groups to your website.

The plugin does not properly sanitize the $_GET['image_url'] variable, which is reflected back to the users when executing the editimage_bwg AJAX action.

Affected Versions:
WordPress Photo Gallery Plugin before 1.6.3.

QID Detection Logic:
This QID sends a HTTP GET request and checks for vulnerable version of WordPress plugin running on the target application.

Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the context of the interface or allow the attacker to access sensitive, browser-based information.

CVSS V3 rated as High - 6.1 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 4.3 severity.

Solution

Customers are advised to upgrade to Photo Gallery 1.6.3 or later version to remediate this vulnerability. For more information regarding this vulnerability please refer WPScan Security Advisory

Vendor References

WPScan - wpscan.com/vulnerability/37a58f4e-d2bc-4825-8e1b-4aaf0a1cf1b6

CVEs related to QID 150527

CVE-2022-1282 |

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
WPScan			wpscan.com/vulnerability/37a58f4e-d2bc-4825-8e1b-4aaf0a1cf1b6
WordPress			wordpress.org/plugins/photo-gallery/#developers

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