Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes <= 4.5.4 - Unauthenticated Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via Comment `title` Attribute…
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Summary
The Photo Gallery (NextGEN Gallery) WordPress plugin is affected, along with its bundled sliders, proofing, and themes features. Unauthenticated attackers could inject malicious scripts through image comments that run in the browsers of visitors who view the affected page, potentially allowing actions taken in the context of those users.
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The Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via the 'comment' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.5.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. Exploitation requires the site to have Shutter or Shutter Reloaded selected as the active lightbox, and the injected comment must be approved through WordPress's standard moderation workflow before the payload is rendered to other visitors.
Timeline
- CVE published
- First seen by cve.now
Affected versions
- smub Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery
through 4.5.4
References 8
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- browser/nextgen-gallery/tags/4.5.4/static/Lightbox/shutter/shutter.js#L197
- browser/nextgen-gallery/tags/4.5.4/static/Lightbox/shutter_reloaded/shutter.js#L247
- browser/nextgen-gallery/tags/4.5.4/static/Lightbox/shutter/shutter.js#L67
- browser/nextgen-gallery/tags/4.5.4/static/Lightbox/shutter_reloaded/shutter.js#L75
- browser/nextgen-gallery/tags/4.5.4/static/Lightbox/shutter/nextgen_shutter.js#L120
- browser/nextgen-gallery/tags/4.5.4/static/Lightbox/shutter_reloaded/nextgen_shutter_reloaded.js#L118
- changeset/3773860/nextgen-gallery/trunk/static/Lightbox/shutter/shutter.js