Vulnerability · Published May 17, 2024 · Assigned by WPScan

CVE-2024-2744Nextgen Gallery < 3.59.1 - Admin+ Stored XSS

Medium 4.3

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in NextGEN Gallery from Unknown. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 33% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.3Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 66.7% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

The NextGEN Gallery WordPress plugin before 3.59.1 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Unknown	NextGEN Gallery	0 – before 3.59.1

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a5579c15-50ba-4618-95e4-04b2033d721f/ exploit, vdb-entry, technical-description