10Web Photo Gallery Plugin up to 1.8.27 on WordPress Setting cross site scripting

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in 10Web Photo Gallery Plugin up to 1.8.27 on WordPress. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Setting Handler. This manipulation causes cross site scripting. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-5968. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in 10Web Photo Gallery Plugin up to 1.8.27 on WordPress. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown functionality of the component Setting Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The Photo Gallery by 10Web WordPress plugin before 1.8.28 does not properly sanitise and escape some of its Gallery settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

The weakness was shared by Dmitrii Ignatyev. It is possible to read the advisory at wpscan.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-5968 since 06/13/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 1.8.28 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Class: Cross site scripting
CWE: CWE-79 / CWE-94 / CWE-74
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Photo Gallery Plugin 1.8.28

Timelineinfo

06/13/2024 🔍
10/09/2024 +118 days 🔍
10/09/2024 +0 days 🔍
03/07/2025 +149 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: wpscan.com
Researcher: Dmitrii Ignatyev
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-5968 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-5968
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-279799

Entryinfo

Created: 10/09/2024 10:31
Updated: 03/07/2025 23:04
Changes: 10/09/2024 10:31 (58), 11/06/2024 06:18 (12), 03/07/2025 23:04 (3)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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