Photo Engine < 6.5.8 - Author+ Stored XSS via Collection Name
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- Last modified
- Where the record stands: published, rejected by its publisher, or superseded by another id.What do these mean? →
- published
- Whether CISA lists it in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: proof that attackers are using it.What do these mean? →
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Fix
- Fixed in 6.5.8
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
- Exploitation: none
- Automatable: no
- Technical impact: total
Summary
The Photo Engine (Media Organizer & Lightroom) WordPress plugin is affected. Authenticated users with the Author role or higher can inject malicious scripts through collection and gallery names, which then run in the browsers of other users who view the administrative dashboard, potentially allowing actions performed in their session.
Summarized by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5. Verify details against the original sources.
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The Photo Engine (Media Organizer & Lightroom) WordPress plugin before 6.5.8 does not sanitise and escape collection and gallery names before storing them and outputting them in an administrative dashboard, allowing authenticated users with the author role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.
Timeline
- CVE published
- First seen by cve.now
- CISA SSVC assessment
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
- Record last updated
Affected versions
- Unknown Photo Engine (Media Organizer & Lightroom)
fixed in 6.5.8