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Cross-site Scripting occurrences in Photo Gallery
The Photo Gallery by 10Web WordPress plugin before 1.6.4 does not properly validate and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks when unfiltered_html is disallowed (2022-06-08, CVE-2022-1394)
The Photo Gallery by 10Web WordPress plugin before 1.6.3 does not properly sanitize the $_GET['image_url'] variable, which is reflected back to the users when executing the editimage_bwg AJAX action. (2022-05-02, CVE-2022-1282)
The Photo Gallery by 10Web WordPress plugin before 1.5.68 is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issues via the bwg_album_breadcrumb_0 and shortcode_id GET parameters passed to the bwg_frontend_data AJAX action (2021-12-06, CVE-2021-25041)
The Photo Gallery by 10Web – Mobile-Friendly Image Gallery WordPress plugin before 1.5.75 did not ensure that uploaded SVG files added to a gallery do not contain malicious content. As a result, users allowed to add images to gallery can upload an SVG file containing JavaScript code, which will be executed when accessing the image directly (ie in the /wp-content/uploads/photo-gallery/ folder), leading to a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issue (2021-08-16, CVE-2021-24362)
The Photo Gallery by 10Web - Mobile-Friendly Image Gallery WordPress plugin before 1.5.67 did 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 (2021-06-01, CVE-2021-24310)
The Photo Gallery by 10Web – Mobile-Friendly Image Gallery WordPress plugin before 1.5.69 was vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issues via the gallery_id, tag, album_id and _id GET parameters passed to the bwg_frontend_data AJAX action (available to both unauthenticated and authenticated users) (2021-05-14, CVE-2021-24291)
A stored XSS vulnerability exists in the Envira Photo Gallery plugin through 1.7.6 for WordPress. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability would allow a authenticated low-privileged user to inject arbitrary JavaScript code that is viewed by other users. (2020-02-25, CVE-2020-9334)
Multiple stored XSS vulnerabilities exist in the 10Web Photo Gallery plugin before 1.5.46 WordPress. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability would allow a authenticated admin user to inject arbitrary JavaScript code that is viewed by other users. (2020-02-25, CVE-2020-9335)
Cross site scripting (XSS) in the photo-gallery (10Web Photo Gallery) plugin before 1.5.35 for WordPress exists via admin/controllers/Options.php. (2019-09-08, CVE-2019-16118)
Cross site scripting (XSS) in the photo-gallery (10Web Photo Gallery) plugin before 1.5.35 for WordPress exists via admin/models/Galleries.php. (2019-09-08, CVE-2019-16117)
The 10Web Photo Gallery plugin before 1.5.23 for WordPress has authenticated stored XSS. (2019-08-09, CVE-2019-14797)
Why Cross-site Scripting can be dangerous
Cross site scripting is an attack where a web page executes code that is injected by an adversary. It usually appears, when users input is presented. This attack can be used to impersonate a user, take over control of the session, or even steal API keys.
The attack can be executed e.g. when you application injects the request parameter directly into the HTML code of the page returned to the user:
https://server.com/confirmation?message=Transaction+Complete
what results in:
<span>Confirmation: Transaction Complete</span>
In that case the message can be modified to become a valid Javascript code, e.g.:
https://server.com/confirmation?message=<script>dangerous javascript code here</script>
and it will be executed locally by the user's browser with full access to the user's personal application/browser data:
<span>Confirmation: <script>dangerous javascript code here</script></span>