WP Photo Album Plus <= 9.2.08.003 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- Published
- 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- Where the record stands: published, rejected by its publisher, or superseded by another id.What do these mean?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
- 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: yes
- Technical impact: partial
Summary
The WP Photo Album Plus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 9.2.08.003 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. The nonce failure path for the getshortcodedrenderedfenodelay action serves as the log-write trigger rather than an access barrier — a deliberately failed nonce check causes wppa_log() to record the attacker-supplied X-Forwarded-For value to disk, making the exploit fully reachable by unauthenticated callers via the wp_ajax_nopriv_wppa endpoint.
Timeline
- CVE published
- CISA SSVC assessment
Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
- Record last updated
Affected versions
- opajaap WP Photo Album Plus
through 9.2.08.003
References 11
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- browser/wp-photo-album-plus/tags/9.2.08.003/js/wppa-admin-scripts.js#L2069
- browser/wp-photo-album-plus/tags/9.2.08.003/wppa-input.php#L560
- browser/wp-photo-album-plus/tags/9.2.08.003/wppa-utils.php#L1960
- browser/wp-photo-album-plus/tags/9.2.08.003/wppa-ajax.php#L1246
- browser/wp-photo-album-plus/tags/9.2.07.002/js/wppa-admin-scripts.js#L2069
- browser/wp-photo-album-plus/tags/9.2.07.002/wppa-input.php#L560
- browser/wp-photo-album-plus/tags/9.2.07.002/wppa-utils.php#L1960
- browser/wp-photo-album-plus/tags/9.2.07.002/wppa-ajax.php#L1246
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